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Two‐Dimensional Transthoracic Contrast Echocardiographic Assessment of Metastatic Left Ventricular Tumors
Author(s) -
Yelamanchili Pridhvi,
Wanat Francis E.,
Knezevic Dusan,
Nanda Navin C.,
Patel Vinod
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.00202.x
Subject(s) - medicine , vascularity , ventricle , interventricular septum , radiology , cardiology , cardiac tumors , contrast (vision) , pathological , biopsy , artificial intelligence , computer science
To illustrate the usefulness of contrast echocardiography in the assessment of cardiac tumors, we present an 81‐year‐old female with pathological fracture of the right clavicle in whom biopsy showed poorly differentiated carcinoma. Two‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography found two masses in the left ventricle attached to mid‐ventricular septum consistent with metastases. Echo contrast study with octafluoropropane (Optison) showed contrast enhancement of both the masses consistent with high vascularity seen in a malignant tumor.