title: Incremental value of transthoracic real time three-dimensional echocardiography in assessment of a right ventricular mass.
abstract: A 52-year-old male with a right ventricular mass that filled the entire right ventricle and assumed its shape was evaluated by two-dimensional and real time three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography. Contrast enhanced 3D imaging and quantitative assessments of the size of the mass were performed. The clinical correlation, the imaging characteristics of the mass, and the pattern of vascularity were consistent with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma. The case illustrates the incremental role of 3D echo in defining the size, shape, spatial relationship, attachments, consistency, and vascularity of the right ventricular mass.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Almomani
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morsy
authors.forename: Meneleo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dimaano
authors.forename: Masood
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ahmad
mesh_terms: D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D003199:Computer Systems; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
keywords: echocardiography; right ventricular mass; three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography