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Case Reports
. 2007;34(1):132-3.

Metastatic cardiac carcinoid

Satish Sivasankaran  1 , Anthony T Sonn, David M Venesy, Sherif B Labib, Bruce S Tronic, Todd D Shuster, Sergio Waxman
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Case Reports

Metastatic cardiac carcinoid

Satish Sivasankaran et al. Tex Heart Inst J. 2007.
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Fig. 1 Transthoracic echocardiogram (apical 4-chamber view) shows a mass (arrow) in the inferior basilar interventricular septum.
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Fig. 2 Magnetic resonance image (steady-state, free precession, horizontal long-axis view) shows a mass in the inferior basilar interventricular septum.
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Fig. 3 Metastatic carcinoid tumor in cardiac muscle shown by histopathologic staining: A) H & E, orig. ×100, and B) chromogranin, orig. ×400.
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References

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