title: Malignant lymphoma presenting as a cardiac tumor.
abstract: We report a case of malignant lymphoma whose initial symptoms were heart failure. An echocardiogram showed a large tumor in the right ventricle, and a definitive diagnosis was obtained at autopsy. Of particular interest in our case, the lymphoma was confined to the heart and a mediastinal lymph node, with its greatest bulk being intracardiac. This case is a rare manifestation of malignant lymphoma.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Terasawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugihara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsubara
mesh_terms: D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged