Cardiac hemangioma of the right atrium
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Botucatu Medical School, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), CEP18618-000, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
2 Department of Pathology, Botucatu Medical School, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil
3 Department of Radiology, Botucatu Medical School, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil
Received 14 July 2006; accepted after revision 20 August 2006; online publish-ahead-of-print 10 October 2006.
* Corresponding author. Tel: +55 14 3882 2969; fax: +55 14 3882 2238. E-mail address: sgzanati{at}fmb.unesp.br
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Primary cardiac tumors are rare, with an incidence range between 0.001% and 0.030% at autopsy. Recent technical advances have facilitated diagnosis and surgical treatment of such lesions. Patients with a resectable tumor usually have a good prognosis, but patients with an unresectable tumor may have a poor prognosis. This report shows a case of right atrial hemangioma growing like an extracardiac mass, with cardiac tamponade the only clinical presentation.
Keywords: Cardiac tumor; Echocardiography; Heart failure