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  • Title: Echocardiography of a right atrial mass in hepatocellular carcinoma.
    Author: Yoshitomi Y, Kojima S, Sugi T, Matsumoto Y, Yano M, Ozeki Y, Kuramochi M.
    Journal: Heart Vessels; 1998; 13(1):45-8. PubMed ID: 9923565.
    Abstract:
    Antemortem diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma with a tumor thrombus extending into the right atrium has been rarely observed. Although echocardiography allows easy detection of the intracardiac mass, reports of echocardiographic descriptions of a right atrial mass associated with hepatocellular carcinoma are few. Herein, we describe two cases of hepatocellular carcinoma with a tumor thrombus in the right atrium detected by transthoracic echocardiography. In one of the patients we also performed transesophageal echocardiography. Neither patient had cardiac symptoms or signs. Thus, echocardiographic examination is very important in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, with or without cardiac symptoms and signs.
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