Heart in the heart: dual faced primary cardiac lymphoma on PET-CT

Jin-Man Cho; Il-Suk Sohn; You-Jung Yang

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.11.183

Heart in the heart: dual faced primary cardiac lymphoma on PET-CT

Int J Cardiol. 2010 Jul 23;142(3):e40-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.11.183. Epub 2009 Jan 7.

Authors

Jin-Man Cho, Il-Suk Sohn, You-Jung Yang

PMID: 19131131
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.11.183

Abstract

We describe a 71 year-old woman with primary cardiac lymphoma which was diagnosed by multimodality imaging particularly with PET/CT scan and finally confirmed by open biopsy. "Heart-shaped" bright signal in the right heart on PET-CT scan was another face of an aggressive cancer: primary cardiac lymphoma which is extremely rare and fatal.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Female
Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Lymphoma / diagnostic imaging*
Positron-Emission Tomography
Tomography, X-Ray Computed