Cardiac Hemangioma of RVOT in a Patient with Atypical Chest Pain
A 40-year-old man presented with atypical chest pain and fatigue from 15 days ago a suspicious mass in the right ventricle based on a bed side transthoracic echocardiography. Preoperative diagnosis of a cardiac hemangioma comes to mind in a minority of cases. In our case, a cardiac tumor was diagnos...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Case Reports in Medicine 2014-01, Vol.2014 (2014), p.174-176-041 |
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Zusammenfassung: | A 40-year-old man presented with atypical chest pain and fatigue from 15 days ago a suspicious mass in the right ventricle based on a bed side transthoracic echocardiography. Preoperative diagnosis of a cardiac hemangioma comes to mind in a minority of cases. In our case, a cardiac tumor was diagnosed and the vascular nature of the tumor was suggested by vascular blush on the coronary angiography. In addition, right ventriculotomy was the approach of choice in our case because of its inaccessibility and its particular location. |
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ISSN: | 1687-9627 1687-9635 |
DOI: | 10.1155/2014/285479 |