title: Cardiac paraganglioma: diagnostic work up and review of the literature.
abstract: Paraganglioma of the heart are potentially invasive, highly vascularized tumors for which complete resection may be curative. Derived from the cardiac wall in most instances, resectability can be assessed after integration of the data provided by MRI in T2 sequence, and coronarography. A fully documented case of a large cardiac pheochromocytoma of the left atrium and AV groove is reported and the pertinent literature on the subject is here presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sook
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hamoir
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de Leval
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Duquenne
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Larbuisson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Joris
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meurisse
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Defraigne
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Radermecker
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery