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A Right Atrial Mass as Initial Presentation of a Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is recognized to have a strong tendency for vascular invasion. However, right atrial (RA) involvement is uncommon. It has been principally described as a fortuitous discovery during oncology follow-up or as an autopsy finding of patients with known HCC. We present a ca...

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Autores principales: Legris, Valéry, Sergerie, Mathieu, Garceau, Patrick, Thibodeau-Jarry, Nicolas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33778456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjco.2020.11.001
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Sumario:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is recognized to have a strong tendency for vascular invasion. However, right atrial (RA) involvement is uncommon. It has been principally described as a fortuitous discovery during oncology follow-up or as an autopsy finding of patients with known HCC. We present a case of a patient whose initial HCC presentation was an RA mass found during a dyspnea investigation. Thereby, on the basis of this new finding, clinicians should consider HCC in their differential diagnosis when discovering an RA mass.