Atrial myxoma in a patient with patent foramen ovale: evaluation with multimodal imaging. Case report
Abstract: Primary cardiac tumors in adults are rare and mostly benign, approximately 75%, being the myxoma the most frequent in half of that percentage. One-fourth of the primary cardiac tumors are malignant and 95% of the cases are sarcomas. Metastases are more frequent than primary tumors. Cardiac surgery is indicated specially in benign masses and therapies such as chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy should be reserved for unresectable or metastatic malignancies. Hence the importance of a diagnostic approach, which leads to the best therapeutic conduct and in many cases, a multimodal image approach is necessary, as it is exposed in our case.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Asociación Nacional de Cardiólogos de México, Sociedad de Cardiología Intervencionista de México
2018
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0188-21982018000100045 |
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