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Right Atrial Metastasis Mimicking Myxoma in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Author(s) -
Anwar Ashraf M.,
Nosir Youssef F. M.,
ChamsiPasha Mohammed A. R.,
Ajam Aref,
ChamsiPasha Hassan
Publication year - 2010
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.1540-8175.2009.00963.x
Subject(s) - hepatocellular carcinoma , medicine , right atrium , malignancy , metastasis , myxoma , atrial myxoma , right atrial myxoma , carcinoma , pathology , radiology , cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common primary tumor of the liver accounting for 4.6% of all new human cancers. Cardiac metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma is an uncommon secondary cardiac malignancy. We described two cases of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with large masses in the right atrium mimicking atrial myxoma. The RA masses were incidentally detected during two‐dimensional echocardiographic examination. (Echocardiography 2010;27:80‐83)