Two-dimensional transthoracic contrast echocardiographic assessment of metastatic left ventricular tumors.
To illustrate the usefulness of contrast echocardiography in the assessment of cardiac tumors, we present an 81-year-old female with pathological fracture of the right clavicle in whom biopsy showed poorly differentiated carcinoma. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography found two masses in the left ventricle attached to mid-ventricular septum consistent with metastases. Echo contrast study with octafluoropropane (Optison) showed contrast enhancement of both the masses consistent with high vascularity seen in a malignant tumor.
Yelamanchili
Pridhvi
P
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Wanat
Francis E
FE
Knezevic
Dusan
D
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Patel
Vinod
V
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000418:Albumins; D003287:Contrast Media; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005466:Fluorocarbons; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*
D000418:Albumins; D003287:Contrast Media; C099458:FS 069; D005466:Fluorocarbons