title: Two-dimensional echocardiography for evaluation of metastatic cardiac tumors in pediatric patients.
abstract: We have studied five patients with metastatic cancer in whom two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) demonstrated cardiac or pericardial involvement. Echo studies may guide the clinician in instituting and/or modifying cardiac and cancer therapy in such patients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male