Cardiac tumors: Optimal cardiac MR sequences and spectrum of imaging appearances

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 377-387

  O'Donnell, David H ^a   Abbara, Suhny ^b,c   Chaithiraphan, Vithaya ^b   Yared, Kibar ^b,c   Killeen, Ronan P ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^b,c,d   Dodd, Jonathan D ^a,b,c  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Baptist Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart diagnosis; Heart neoplasms; MRI; Neoplasm metastasis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM;

ANGIOSARCOMA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROELASTOMA; FIBROMA; FIBROSARCOMA; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART METASTASIS; HEART MYXOMA; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERATRIAL SEPTUM HYPERTROPHY; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSTEOSARCOMA; PARAGANGLIOMA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOMA; SARCOMA; SPECTRUM; TUMOR CALCINOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEART DISEASES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIPOMA; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; RHABDOMYOMA; SARCOMA; THROMBOSIS; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

EID: 68249107604     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1895     Document Type: Review

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