Computed Tomography of Cardiac Pseudotumors and Neoplasms

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 799-816

  Anavekar, Nandan S ^a   Bonnichsen, Crystal R ^a   Foley, Thomas A ^a   Morris, Michael F ^a   Martinez, Matthew W ^a   Williamson, Eric E ^a   Glockner, James F ^a   Miller, Dylan V ^a   Breen, Jerome F ^a   Araoz, Philip A ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac masses; Cardiac neoplasm; Computed tomography; Pseudotumor

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANGIOSARCOMA; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FIBROMA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LYMPHOMA; HEART METASTASIS; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MYXOMA; HEART PAPILLARY FIBROELASTOMA; HEART PSEUDOTUMOR; HEART TUMOR; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOMA; LIPOMATOUS HYPERTROPHY OF THE INTERATRIAL SEPTUM; LIPOSARCOMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSARCOMA; PARAGANGLIOMA; PERICARDIAL HEMATOMA; PERICARDIUM CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR THROMBUS; TUMOR VOLUME;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955529686     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.04.002     Document Type: Review

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