[Diagnosis of a cardiac mass--a case report].
The authors describe a case of a recidivant pericardial effusion associated to a mass with an unusual, filamentous aspect that involved the upper part of right atrium and surrounded the upper vena cava. Despite the diagnostic techniques employed--transesophageal echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging, the etiologic diagnosis could not be done, so a biopsy of the mass was made by percutaneous approach using transesophageal echocardiography to control the procedure. The histopathological result was an angiosarcoma of the right atrium. The authors make a brief review of the literature about this rare condition.
Galrinho
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Serviço de Cardiologia, Hospital Fernando Fonseca.
Ferreira
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Loureiro
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Terras
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Silva
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Ferreira
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D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging