Myocardial fibroma diagnosed with MRI: importance of the late enhancement pattern.
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We read with interest the pictorial review of cardiac neoplasms and pseudotumors by Hoey et al. (1) published in the January 2012 issue of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. We want to add our experience with one case of myocardial fibroma diagnosed with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that emphasizes the diagnostic importance of the late-enhancement pattern to differentiate myocardial fibroma from other mass lesions, including mass-like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). A 75-year-old man with coronary heart disease had been diagnosed with a left ventricular apical mass by echocardiography 13 years earlier. The mass was suspected of being
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Diagnostic and interventional radiology
دوره 18 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012