Mature Cardiac Teratoma in an Adult

The incidental diagnosis in adult age is very unusual and the presence of clinical symptoms is related to its location, which is most commonly intrapericardial. The presence of intramyocardial teratoma lesions is even rarer and has been reported in few publications. The recommendations for the diagn...

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Autores principales: Cohen, Ronny A, Loarte, Pablo, Navarro, Victor, Mirrer, Brooks
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5358237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28352404
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/cr182w
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author Cohen, Ronny A
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description The incidental diagnosis in adult age is very unusual and the presence of clinical symptoms is related to its location, which is most commonly intrapericardial. The presence of intramyocardial teratoma lesions is even rarer and has been reported in few publications. The recommendations for the diagnosis and management of a cardiac teratoma depends upon the imaging studies and the pathological report after surgical excision. The prognosis of surgically treated patient is very good and a complete surgical excision is preferred in order to avoid complications.
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spelling pubmed-53582372017-03-28 Mature Cardiac Teratoma in an Adult Cohen, Ronny A Loarte, Pablo Navarro, Victor Mirrer, Brooks Cardiol Res Review The incidental diagnosis in adult age is very unusual and the presence of clinical symptoms is related to its location, which is most commonly intrapericardial. The presence of intramyocardial teratoma lesions is even rarer and has been reported in few publications. The recommendations for the diagnosis and management of a cardiac teratoma depends upon the imaging studies and the pathological report after surgical excision. The prognosis of surgically treated patient is very good and a complete surgical excision is preferred in order to avoid complications. Elmer Press 2012-06 2012-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5358237/ /pubmed/28352404 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/cr182w Text en Copyright 2012, Cohen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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