title: Primary cardiac neuroendocrine carcinoma and minimally invasive cardiac surgery.
abstract: Diagnosis of cardiac neoplasm has become more feasible with the use of echocardiography, but imaging is sometimes not enough to establish a diagnosis, and a biopsy is required to determine the diagnosis and treatment. Transesophageal echocardiography-directed biopsies via a minithoracotomy revealed an extremely rare primary cardiac tumor, a poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma, in the left atrium of a 54-year-old man who presented with syncope and hypotension.
authors.affiliation: Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Management Department, Consorcio Hospital General, Valencia, Spain.paulac_g@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carmona
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lázaro
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Llagunes
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cánovas
mesh_terms: D018278:Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures