title: Coronary artery aneurysms mimicking cardiac tumor.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discuss the diagnosis of giant coronary aneurysms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We describe three patients in whom initial echocardiographic findings suggested cardiac tumors in the right atrium. Additional examination proved the tumor-like structures to be giant atherosclerotic coronary aneurysms of either the right coronary artery or its saphenous vein coronary bypass graft.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Giant coronary aneurysms are an important differential diagnosis for cardiac tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, N-0027 Oslo, Norway. ole-gunnar.anfinsen@rikshospitalet.no
authors.forename: Ole-Gunnar
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Anfinsen
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Aaberge
authors.forename: Odd
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Geiran
authors.forename: Hans-Jørgen
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Svend
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aakhus
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed