title: Primary cardiac lymphoma: diagnosis by transvenous biopsy under transesophageal echocardiographic guidance.
abstract: A 64-year-old woman presenting with dizziness and atrioventricular conduction disturbances was found to have a right atrial mass by two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography. Transesophageal echocardiography allowed further delineation of the tumor and safe performance of transvenous biopsy, thereby obviating the need for surgery. Pathological examination of the biopsy specimen as well as the absence of extracardiac location established the diagnosis of primary cardiac lymphoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Unger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kentos
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cogan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Renard
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Crasset
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stoupel
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional