Heart in the heart: dual faced primary cardiac lymphoma on PET-CT.
We describe a 71 year-old woman with primary cardiac lymphoma which was diagnosed by multimodality imaging particularly with PET/CT scan and finally confirmed by open biopsy. "Heart-shaped" bright signal in the right heart on PET-CT scan was another face of an aggressive cancer: primary cardiac lymphoma which is extremely rare and fatal.
Cho
Jin-Man
JM
Sohn
Il-Suk
IS
Yang
You-Jung
YJ
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed