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. 2014 Dec 5:2:264.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00264. eCollection 2014.

Cardiac tumors: a brief commentary

Leonardo Roever  1 , Antonio Casella-Filho  2 , Paulo Magno Martins Dourado  2 , Elmiro Santos Resende  3 , Antônio Carlos Palandri Chagas  4
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Cardiac tumors: a brief commentary

Leonardo Roever et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Patients with cardiac tumors may present with cardiovascular related or constitutional symptoms, but more often than not a cardiac mass is discovered incidentally during an imaging examination performed for an unrelated indication. Cardiac myxoma is generally considered to be a surgical emergency. Echocardiography, including the transesophageal approach, is the most important means of diagnosis; computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The clinical presentation has changed, and the management of cardiac myxoma now needs to be reviewed.

Keywords: cardiac; echocardiography; heart tumors; myxoma; tumors.

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