A case of hepatic hernia with echocardiographic findings simulating right atrial tumor.
A patient with hepatic hernia was found to have echocardiographic findings resembling a right atrial tumor. Magnetic resonance imaging was useful in establishing a definitive diagnosis of hepatic hernia. Hepatic hernias should be ruled out when a right atrial tumor is suspected on the basis of transthoracic echocardiographic findings.
Fujimoto
S
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Department of Clinico-laboratory Diagnostics, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan.
Nakagawa
Y
Y
Mizuno
R
R
Dohi
K
K
Otsuji
H
H
Nakano
H
H
D000368:Aged; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006547:Hernia / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000150:complications