title: Dyspnea and Chest Pain in a Young Woman Caused by a Giant Pericardial Lymphohemangioma: Diagnosis and Treatment.
abstract: We describe a 21-year-old woman who presented with chest pain and dyspnea on exertion and who was found to have a large pericardial mass. Multimodality imaging was instrumental in narrowing the differential diagnosis and planning surgical treatment, which included coronary artery bypass and right-sided heart reconstruction. The final pathologic diagnosis was lymphohemangioma; to our knowledge, this was the largest cardiac/pericardial vascular tumor ever to be reported in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Sean P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Heffron
authors.affiliation: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Carlos L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Alviar
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Towe
authors.affiliation: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Benjamin P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Geisler
authors.affiliation: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; Department of Radiology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Leon
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Axel
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Aubrey C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Galloway
authors.affiliation: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA. Electronic address: adam.skolnick@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Adam H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Skolnick
mesh_terms: D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008202:Lymphangioma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D055815:Young Adult