Cardiac involvement by lymphoma: diagnostic difficulties.
A patient presenting with recurrent tamponade was subsequently shown to have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Catheterization demonstrated obstruction of the tricuspid valve by tumour and shunting through a patent foramen ovale. The difficulties in making an ante-mortem diagnosis of cardiac lymphoma are discussed.
Coghlan
J G
JG
Department of Cardiology, Harefield Hospital, Middlesex, England.
Paul
V E
VE
Mitchell
A G
AG
D000368:Aged; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male