Right atrial hemangioma: clinicopathological considerations of a case.
Hemangiomas are rare benign tumours of the heart, generally asymptomatic and usually diagnosed in male young or full-grown adults. We report here a case of a symptomatic right atrial hemangioma in a 75-year-old woman with a clinical history of hypertension. The tumour was diagnosed after an episode of acute bronchopneumonia precipiting the patient's cardiac failure initially referred to the hypertensive condition.
Orlandi
Augusto
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Department of Biopathology, Anatomic Pathology Institute, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy. orlandi@uniroma2.it
Ferlosio
Amedeo
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Pellegrino
Antonio
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Spagnoli
Luigi Giusto
LG