Two-dimensional echocardiographic findings of cardiovascular involvement by invasive thymoma.
Two-dimensional echocardiographic features are described in a patient with invasive thymoma. In the present study, we emphasize that two-dimensional echocardiography is useful in detecting both the extent of thymoma itself and its invasion to the pericardium and pulmonary artery.
D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D013945:Thymoma / Q000473:pathology*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*