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- Title
Two-Dimensional Transthoracic Contrast Echocardiographic Assessment of Metastatic Left Ventricular Tumors.
- Authors
Yelamanchili, Pridhvi; Wanat, Francis E.; Knezevic, Dusan; Nanda, Navin C.; Patel, Vinod
- Abstract
To illustrate the usefulness of contrast echocardiography in the assessment of cardiac tumors, we present an 81-year-old female with pathological fracture of the right clavicle in whom biopsy showed poorly differentiated carcinoma. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography found two masses in the left ventricle attached to mid-ventricular septum consistent with metastases. Echo contrast study with octafluoropropane (Optison) showed contrast enhancement of both the masses consistent with high vascularity seen in a malignant tumor.
- Subjects
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC imaging; METASTASIS; LEFT heart ventricle; HEART tumors
- Publication
Echocardiography, 2006, Vol 23, Issue 3, p248
- ISSN
0742-2822
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.00202.x