Spontaneous left atrial dissection and hematoma mimicking a cardiac tumor: Findings from echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and pathology

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Lombardo, Antonella ^a   Luciani, Nicola ^b   Rizzello, Vittoria ^a   Natale, Luigi ^a   Pennestrí, Faustino ^a   Ricci, Riccardo ^a   Bonomo, Lorenzo ^a   Possati, Gian Federico ^b   Crea, Filippo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TUMOR; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747393694     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.616268     Document Type: Article

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