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Case Reports
. 2010 Jul 23;142(3):e40-1.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.11.183. Epub 2009 Jan 7.

Heart in the heart: dual faced primary cardiac lymphoma on PET-CT

Jin-Man Cho, Il-Suk Sohn, You-Jung Yang
Case Reports

Heart in the heart: dual faced primary cardiac lymphoma on PET-CT

Jin-Man Cho et al. Int J Cardiol. .

Abstract

We describe a 71 year-old woman with primary cardiac lymphoma which was diagnosed by multimodality imaging particularly with PET/CT scan and finally confirmed by open biopsy. "Heart-shaped" bright signal in the right heart on PET-CT scan was another face of an aggressive cancer: primary cardiac lymphoma which is extremely rare and fatal.

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