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Abstract
Primary cardiac angiosarcoma is an extremely rare malignant tumor with various clinical presentations but usually in late stage. We report a case presented with bloody pericardial effusion, in which the final diagnosis was confirmed by multiple imaging modalities such as echocardiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, as well as ultrasound-guided liver biopsy.Entities:
Keywords: Cardiac angiosarcoma; multimodality imaging; pericardial effusion
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24696736 PMCID: PMC3971326
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Clin Exp Pathol ISSN: 1936-2625