Collection: Case Reports

Case Reports

A Right Atrial Mass with Fever and Cutaneous Nodules

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Abstract

Primary cardiac tumors, although exceedingly rare, should be considered in the differential diagnosis during workup of any cardiac mass. Extranodal cardiac lymphomas have a natural aggressive course due to delayed diagnosis. We present a 71-year-old male with a dual-chamber pacemaker who presented with fevers and new cutaneous nodules. He was found to have a right atrial primary anaplastic large-cell lymphoma and had a complete metabolic response after chemotherapy. Our case highlights the importance of a multimodality approach in the diagnosis of cardiac tumors and during follow-up after treatment.

Keywords:

extranodal lymphomacardiac magnetic resonance imagingmultimodality imaginganaplastic large cell lymphomaprimary cardiac tumor
  • Year: 2022
  • Volume: 18 Issue: 1
  • Page/Article: 48-53
  • DOI: 10.14797/mdcvj.1126
  • Submitted on 26 Apr 2022
  • Accepted on 13 Jun 2022
  • Published on 11 Jul 2022
  • Peer Reviewed