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Echocardiography is a well-established and valuable modality for diagnosing cardiac mass lesions and investigating unexpected clinical signs or postmortem findings.
This review highlights the established value and evolution of echocardiography and other imaging modalities in diagnosing cardiac tumors.
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Supports echocardiography for cardiac masses in forensic settings; leaves open higher-level validation studies.
In the past, cardiac tumors were a just clinical curiosity and the prognosis was poor. Surgical management became possible after the advent of cardiopulmonary bypass, and more recently, preoperative diagnosis was greatly improved by the development of echocardiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. The value of echocardiography for diagnosing cardiac mass lesions has become well established. Numerous advances have occurred in the last 5 decades, and the evolution of echocardiography involves the development of its many modalities. This review is intended to help echocardiologists and forensic pathologists in providing good medical practice when faced with the challenge of investigating unexpected clinical signs, particularly in young people, or unexpected postmortem findings.
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Capotosto et al. (2016) conducted a review in Cardiac tumors. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography is a well-established and valuable modality for diagnosing cardiac mass lesions and investigating unexpected clinical signs or postmortem findings.
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