title: Intracardiac rhabdomyosarcoma: transesophageal echocardiographic findings and diagnosis.
abstract: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) was performed on a 41-year-old woman who presented with a cerebrovascular accident. TEE confirmed the presence of a morphologically bizarre biatrial tumor with precarious, vigorous motion throughout the cardiac cycle. Surgical intervention was decided on, and the patient underwent cardiac surgery for tumor excision 16 hours after TEE. Intraoperative frozen section diagnosis was spindle cell sarcoma, and subsequent immunohistochemical analysis showed the tumor to be a rhabdomyosarcoma. The data are presented here, and the role of TEE to establish a preoperative diagnosis of intracardiac tumor is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Section of Adult Cardiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Awad
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: al Halees
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mercer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akhtar
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hainau
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Duran
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology