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CASE

Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2018, Pages 156-162
CASE

Cancerous Connections
Multimodality Cardiac Imaging Assessment of a Large Metastatic Pericardial Leiomyosarcoma

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Highlights

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    Cardiac metastases from ULMS are very rare.

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    This is the first case report of a metastatic leiomyosarcoma to the pericardium.

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    Multimodality imaging is important in assessing an undifferentiated cardiac tumor.

Keywords

Pericardial metastasis
Uterine leiomyosarcoma
Transesophageal echocardiography
Multidetector cardiac computed tomography
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

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