A case of prominent epicardial fat mimicking a tumor on echocardiography.

Epicardial fat may anteriorly produce an echo-free space that can be mistaken for pericardial fluid. We recently experienced a 67-year-old woman with prominent epicardial fat which was presented as an echogenic tumor-like mass. She underwent open pericardiostomy to relieve large amount of pericardia...

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Autores principales: Ahn, Y. K., Park, J. C., Park, W. S., Kim, N. H., Kim, J. W., Kim, S. H., Cho, J. H., Jeong, M. H., Cho, J. G., Kang, J. C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 1999
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3054469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10576155

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