Published in:
01-10-2010 | Case-In-Point
MRI: more than meets the echo eye
Authors:
Mi-Seung Shin, Yon Mi Sung, Bong Roung Kim
Published in:
The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
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Issue 7/2010
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Excerpt
Familial cardiac myxomas are rare and often appear as right sided multi-chamber myxomas with an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance [
1,
2]. We report on a case of familial cardiac myxoma. A large myxoma in the right ventricle (RV) was detected; however, a small myxoma in the right atrium (RA) was missed in routine echocardiography, and then detected by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). …