title: Cardiac hemangioma of the right atrium.
abstract: Primary cardiac tumors are rare, with an incidence range between 0.001% and 0.030% at autopsy. Recent technical advances have facilitated diagnosis and surgical treatment of such lesions. Patients with a resectable tumor usually have a good prognosis, but patients with an unresectable tumor may have a poor prognosis. This report shows a case of right atrial hemangioma growing like an extracardiac mass, with cardiac tamponade the only clinical presentation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Botucatu Medical School, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), CEP18618-000, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. sgzanati@fmb.unesp.br
authors.forename: Silméia Garcia
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Zanati
authors.forename: João Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Hueb
authors.forename: Ana Lúcia
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Cogni
authors.forename: Maria Gorete Teixeira
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: de Morais
authors.forename: Luiz Eduardo
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: de Almeida Prado Franceschi
authors.forename: Maurício
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morceli
authors.forename: Antonio Carlos
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Cicogna
authors.forename: Beatriz Bojikian
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Matsubara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male