title: Imaging cardiac tumors.
abstract: Cross-sectional imaging techniques such as echocardiography and MRI provide important information about cardiac masses. Echocardiography can provide information about cardiac tumors with regard to size, location and response to treatment. MRI is helpful in determining tumor extent, mobility, location, local invasion, relationship with critical cardiac and non-cardiac structures and tumor characterization. For pericardial tumors and metastatic lesions, MRI appears to be the imaging modality of choice.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiac Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, 25 New Chardon St, Boston, MA 02114, USA. mkalra@partners.org
authors.forename: Mannudeep K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Kalra
authors.forename: Suhny
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abbara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods