An Unusual Cardiac Metastasis: Right Atrial Chondrosarcoma Diagnosed With Multimodality Cardiac Imaging

[Display omitted] •Metastatic cardiac tumors are about 20 times more common than primary cardiac tumors.•Metastatic CS to the myocardium has only rarely been described in case reports.•Cardiac masses are differentiated by clinical context, location, and imaging appearance.•CMR is considered the gold...

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Published inCASE (Philadelphia, Pa.) Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 162 - 166
Main Authors Goldberg, Alan B., Lama von Buchwald, Claudia, Kalra, Dinesh K., Rao, Anupama K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.08.2019
Elsevier
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Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Chondrosarcoma
Chrondosarcoma and Dueling Myxoma
Right atrial mass
Transesophageal echocardiogram
Transthoracic echocardiogram
Chondrosarcoma
Transthoracic echocardiogram
Transesophageal echocardiogram
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Right atrial mass
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Summary:[Display omitted] •Metastatic cardiac tumors are about 20 times more common than primary cardiac tumors.•Metastatic CS to the myocardium has only rarely been described in case reports.•Cardiac masses are differentiated by clinical context, location, and imaging appearance.•CMR is considered the gold standard in cardiac imaging, but TEE was key in this case.
ISSN:2468-6441
2468-6441
DOI:10.1016/j.case.2019.03.005