Atrial mass: a myxoma?

A middle‐aged woman with a history of resected colorectal cancer and receiving chemotherapy presented with a right atrial mass and the provisional diagnosis of myxoma supported by echocardiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Successful surgical removal revealed organized th...

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Autores principales: Chatzis, Andrew C., Kostopanagiotou, Kostas, Kousi, Theofili, Mitropoulos, Fotios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.626
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author Chatzis, Andrew C.
Kostopanagiotou, Kostas
Kousi, Theofili
Mitropoulos, Fotios
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description A middle‐aged woman with a history of resected colorectal cancer and receiving chemotherapy presented with a right atrial mass and the provisional diagnosis of myxoma supported by echocardiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Successful surgical removal revealed organized thrombus instead. Atrial thrombus may be mistaken for myxoma and long‐term intracardiac indwelling catheters can be thrombogenic.
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spelling pubmed-49744432016-08-12 Atrial mass: a myxoma? Chatzis, Andrew C. Kostopanagiotou, Kostas Kousi, Theofili Mitropoulos, Fotios Clin Case Rep Clinical Images A middle‐aged woman with a history of resected colorectal cancer and receiving chemotherapy presented with a right atrial mass and the provisional diagnosis of myxoma supported by echocardiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Successful surgical removal revealed organized thrombus instead. Atrial thrombus may be mistaken for myxoma and long‐term intracardiac indwelling catheters can be thrombogenic. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4974443/ /pubmed/27525099 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.626 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Chatzis, Andrew C.
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Atrial mass: a myxoma?
title Atrial mass: a myxoma?
title_full Atrial mass: a myxoma?
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title_full_unstemmed Atrial mass: a myxoma?
title_short Atrial mass: a myxoma?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.626
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