Value of CMR for the differential diagnosis of cardiac masses

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 896-905

  Pazos López, Pablo ^a,b   Pozo, Eduardo ^a   Siqueira, Maria E ^a   García Lunar, Inés ^a,b   Cham, Matthew ^a   Jacobi, Adam ^a   Macaluso, Frank ^a   Fuster, Valentín ^a,b   Narula, Jagat ^a   Sanz, Javier ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benign cardiac tumor; Cardiac magnetic resonance; Cardiac mass; Cardiac thrombus; Cardiac tumor; Diagnosis; Malignant cardiac tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBUS; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART DISEASES; HEART NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; THROMBOSIS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84922623545     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.05.009     Document Type: Article

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