TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-GUIDED TRANSVENOUS ENDOMYOCARDIAL BIOPSY USED TO DIAGNOSE PRIMARY CARDIAC ANGIOSARCOMA

Authors
HAMMOUDEH AJ CHAABAN F WATSON RM MILLMAN A
Citation
Aj. Hammoudeh et al., TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-GUIDED TRANSVENOUS ENDOMYOCARDIAL BIOPSY USED TO DIAGNOSE PRIMARY CARDIAC ANGIOSARCOMA, Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis, 37(3), 1996, pp. 347-349
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis → ACNP
ISSN journal
00986569
Volume
37
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
347 - 349
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-6569(1996)37:3<347:TETEB>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Primary cardiac tumors are rare clinical entities with the histologic diagnosis usually made from surgically obtained tissue or at postmorte m examination. Transvenous endomyocardial biopsy has been used less fr equently, under fluoroscopic or transthoracic echocardiographic guidan ce. In this case report, we utilized the transesophageal echocardiogra phy to guide the endomyocardial biopsy from a right atrial tumor in a 35-year-old man. (C) 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.