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A case of multiple cardiac calcified amorphous tumours

Cardiac calcified amorphous tumours of the heart are rare non-neoplastic cardiac masses that can present like a malignant mass or an intra-cardiac thrombus. We report an extremely unusual case of a 73 year old man who presented to hospital with dyspnoea and subsequent investigations revealed multipl...

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Autores principales: Chowdhary, Amrit, Walpole, Sarah Catherine, Gupta, Sanjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5485399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28648430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2016.12.001
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description Cardiac calcified amorphous tumours of the heart are rare non-neoplastic cardiac masses that can present like a malignant mass or an intra-cardiac thrombus. We report an extremely unusual case of a 73 year old man who presented to hospital with dyspnoea and subsequent investigations revealed multiple cardiac CATs.
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spelling pubmed-54853992018-05-01 A case of multiple cardiac calcified amorphous tumours Chowdhary, Amrit Walpole, Sarah Catherine Gupta, Sanjay Indian Heart J Case Report Cardiac calcified amorphous tumours of the heart are rare non-neoplastic cardiac masses that can present like a malignant mass or an intra-cardiac thrombus. We report an extremely unusual case of a 73 year old man who presented to hospital with dyspnoea and subsequent investigations revealed multiple cardiac CATs. Elsevier 2017 2016-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5485399/ /pubmed/28648430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2016.12.001 Text en © 2016 Cardiological Society of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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