Cardiac Paraganglioma: Advantages of Cardiovascular Multimodality Imaging

Multimodality imaging of a cardiac paraganglioma

Paragangliomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors arising from the ganglia of the sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system. Less than 160 cases of intrapericardial or intracardiac paragangliomas have been reported in the English language peer-reviewed medical literature. Here, we report a case of intrapericardial paraganglioma, which illustrates some typical multimodality imaging features of t...

multimodality imaging of a cardiac angiosarcoma

introduction while primary malignant tumors of the heart are rare, angiosarcomas are the most common cardiac malignant tumors. case presentation we describe a 23-year-old woman who presented with a right atrial mass, which was discovered to be a cardiac angiosarcoma. we demonstrate the use of several noninvasive imaging modalities along with pathology confirmation for the definitive and compreh...

Multimodality cardiac imaging.

Multimodality imaging of cardiac tumour.

Functioning intrapericardial paraganglioma: multimodality imaging findings and pathological correlation.

A 38-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of night sweats, nonproductive cough, and weight loss. He denied chest pain or shortness of breath. A transesophageal echocardiogram showed a large mass adjacent to the aortic root likely arising from the pericardium or the left ventricle (Figure 1 and Movie I in the online-only Data Supplement). Invasive coronary angiography revealed a highly ...