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Case Reports
. 2019 Sep;12(9):e009443.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.119.009443. Epub 2019 Sep 10.

Cardiac Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor

Tommaso D'Angelo  1 , Silvio Mazziotti  1 , Maria Cristina Inserra  2 , Francesco De Luca  3 , Salvatore Agati  4 , Emilia Magliolo  5 , Faraz Pathan  6   7 , Alfredo Blandino  1 , Placido Romeo  2
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Case Reports

Cardiac Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor

Tommaso D'Angelo et al. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor; cardiac mass; cardiac pseudotumor; diagnosis, differential; heart neoplasms; magnetic resonance imaging; myofibroblasts.

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Cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT). Three chamber view in transthoracic echocardiography, (A) showing a polypoid mass (*) in right ventricular outflow tract. Cardiac magnetic resonance confirms the presence of a pedunculated tumor (arrow) prolapsing to main pulmonary trunk in end-systole (B). The mass is hyperintense in T2/T1-weighted cine-images (B), heterogeneously isointense in T1-weighted (C), and it does not show early or late gadolinium enhancement (D and E). Macroscopic (F and G) and histopathologic (H) appearance of cardiac IMT. Ao indicates aorta; LV, left ventricle; and RV, right ventricle.
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