Primary cardiac angiosarcoma confirmed by multimodality imaging guided liver biopsy.
Primary cardiac angiosarcoma is an extremely rare malignant tumor with various clinical presentations but usually in late stage. We report a case presented with bloody pericardial effusion, in which the final diagnosis was confirmed by multiple imaging modalities such as echocardiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, as well as ultrasound-guided liver biopsy.
Department of Respiratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University Chengdu, China.
Zhi-Xin
ZX
Qiu
Department of Cardiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University Chengdu, China.
Qing
Q
Zhang
D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Cardiac angiosarcoma; multimodality imaging; pericardial effusion