Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart in a case of hepatocellular carcinoma extending into the right atrium.
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common primary malignant liver tumor occurring in more than 1 million cases a year all over the world. Vascular invasion is known to occur in 30% of patients at initial presentation [1]. An extension of the tumor into the right atrium is well described in the literature [2], with surgical resection as the only procedure available. But the diagnosis is often difficult before death. We report a case in which magnetic resonance imaging of liver and heart shows the extension of this tumor into the right atrium.
Dendale
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Department of Cardiology, A.Z.-V.U.B., Brussels, Belgium.
op de Beeck
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de Ridder
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Claessens
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Osteaux
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Block
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D000368:Aged; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000473:pathology*; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness