Cardiac Tumor Within the Left Ventricle

Kyle T Barron, Archie Landrum, Hussein Abu Daya, Stephen Clarkson · 2024

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Kyle Barron and co-authors present a short clinical vignette from 2024 about a tumor inside the heart's main pumping chamber. The growth was a papillary fibroelastoma, a benign tumor that usually sprouts from a heart valve. It is typically removed because pieces can break off and block vessels elsewhere. Scans found a round, mobile mass fixed to the tip of the left ventricle. Higher-resolution imaging then failed to show it clearly, so a team from several specialties used combined imaging to treat the puzzling case.

Catalog record

CREATORKyle T Barron, Archie Landrum, Hussein Abu Daya, Stephen Clarkson
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE8 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11646900

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