Imaging of pericardial tumours: a case report

BACKGROUND: Pericardial tumours are unusual and may be difficult to characterise with imaging. They manifest as large, non-contractile, solid masses within the pericardium. Presenting symptoms include heart failure, arrythmias, sudden death, cyanosis and chest pain. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a...

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Autores principales: Tilling, Lindsey, Hudsmith, Lucy, Goldman, Jonathan, Becher, Harald
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16848884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-4-29
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author Tilling, Lindsey
Hudsmith, Lucy
Goldman, Jonathan
Becher, Harald
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Hudsmith, Lucy
Goldman, Jonathan
Becher, Harald
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description BACKGROUND: Pericardial tumours are unusual and may be difficult to characterise with imaging. They manifest as large, non-contractile, solid masses within the pericardium. Presenting symptoms include heart failure, arrythmias, sudden death, cyanosis and chest pain. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of massive pericardial fibroma in a 52 year old woman, who presented with palpitations only. CONCLUSION: We illustrate the different imaging modalities available to image this tumour prior to surgical resection, and indicate the strengths and weaknesses of each.
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spelling pubmed-15386332006-08-10 Imaging of pericardial tumours: a case report Tilling, Lindsey Hudsmith, Lucy Goldman, Jonathan Becher, Harald Cardiovasc Ultrasound Case Report BACKGROUND: Pericardial tumours are unusual and may be difficult to characterise with imaging. They manifest as large, non-contractile, solid masses within the pericardium. Presenting symptoms include heart failure, arrythmias, sudden death, cyanosis and chest pain. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of massive pericardial fibroma in a 52 year old woman, who presented with palpitations only. CONCLUSION: We illustrate the different imaging modalities available to image this tumour prior to surgical resection, and indicate the strengths and weaknesses of each. BioMed Central 2006-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC1538633/ /pubmed/16848884 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-4-29 Text en Copyright © 2006 Tilling et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tilling, Lindsey
Hudsmith, Lucy
Goldman, Jonathan
Becher, Harald
Imaging of pericardial tumours: a case report
title Imaging of pericardial tumours: a case report
title_full Imaging of pericardial tumours: a case report
title_fullStr Imaging of pericardial tumours: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Imaging of pericardial tumours: a case report
title_short Imaging of pericardial tumours: a case report
title_sort imaging of pericardial tumours: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16848884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-4-29
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