Surgical features of malignant cardiac tumors
Key points • Differentiating primary benign vs malignant cardiac tumors can be done using multimodal imaging as well as tissue biopsy. • Clinical features including rapid growth, involvement of multiple…
PET in benign cardiac tumors: Diagnosis, approach, and follow up
Key points • Positron emission tomography (PET) measures two annihilation photons of an emitted positron from a radionuclide-labeled tracer with a specific biochemical distribution, resulting in molecular imaging of biological…
CT in malignant cardiac tumors (diagnosis, approach, follow-up)
Key points • Cardiac CT has several advantages including wide availability, rapid acquisition time, excellent isotropic spatial resolution, and multiplanar reconstruction capabilities. • CT is a robust technique for assessment…
CMR for malignant cardiac tumors: Diagnosis, approach, and follow-up
Key points • Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard noninvasive imaging modality to assess tissue characteristics in vivo which gives it a unique advantage in discriminating benign cardiac…
CMR in benign cardiac tumors (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
Key points • Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is a robust technique in the evaluation of cardiac mass. • The advantage of CMR includes the large field of view, superior tissue…
Cardiac thrombi and imaging modalities (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
Key points • Intracardiac thrombi constitute an important clinical condition because of their potential complications. • Detection of ventricular thrombi is generally performed by transthoracic echocardiography, while atrial thrombi are…
Echocardiography in benign cardiac tumors (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
Key points • The most common benign cardiac tumors are myxomas. Arising from a stalk attached to the fossa ovalis membrane, myxomas are generally found in the left atrium. •…
Echocardiography in malignant cardiac tumors (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
Key points • Most malignant cardiac tumors are metastatic, most commonly from lung and breast carcinomas, melanomas, soft tissue sarcomas, and renal carcinomas. • Malignant primary cardiac tumors are rare…
CT in benign cardiac tumors (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
Key points • CT has emerged as an important imaging modality in the evaluation of cardiac and paracardiac neoplasms. CT has several advantages including wide availability, rapid acquisition time, excellent…
Infectious lesions mimicking cardiac masses
Key points • Vegetations are oscillating or nonoscillating intracardiac masses on the valves or other endocardial structures or intracardiac implanted materials. • Vegetations are typically located on the upstream side…
