Primary cardiac liposarcoma arising from the left atrium in an elderly female patient; the value of multimodality imaging

Hellenic J Cardiol. 2021 Mar-Apr;62(2):173-174. doi: 10.1016/j.hjc.2020.05.005. Epub 2020 Jun 10.

Authors

Pavlos Stougiannos¹, George Michas¹, Marianna Leopoulou¹, Constantinos Evdoridis¹, Fotios Mitropoulos², Athanasios Trikas³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
² Department of Children's and Adult Cardiac Congenital Heart Disease, Maternity Hospital MHTERA, Athens, Greece.
³ Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: atrikas@otenet.gr.

PMID: 32534111
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjc.2020.05.005

No abstract available

Keywords: contrast echocardiography; left atrium; liposarcoma; primary cardiac tumor; transesophageal echocardiography.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

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Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Female
Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging
Heart Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Heart Neoplasms* / surgery
Humans
Liposarcoma* / diagnostic imaging