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Detection of cardiac neoplasms is increasing, and early diagnosis enables timely treatment, whereas life-time diagnosis was rare before two-dimensional echocardiography.
Echocardiography is a fundamental and accessible imaging modality for the early in-vivo diagnosis, morphological characterization, and hemodynamic assessment of primary and secondary cardiac tumors.
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Echocardiographic criteria may aid early cardiac tumor detection; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
The article focuses on ultrasound diagnosis of cardiac tumors (CT). In recent time, the frequency of detecting cardiac neoplasm has been growing. Correct diagnosis at an early stage of the process would allow timely treatment. Before the introduction of two-dimensional echocardiography (EchoCG), life-time diagnosis of CT was very rare. This article describes major echocardiographic criteria for most common benign, malignant, and metastatic CTs. The article is illustrated with original echocardiographic images.
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