Intracardiac echocardiography is a feasible and safe alternative to transthoracic or transesophageal echocardiography for guiding right cardiac tumor biopsy.
May support ICE as alternative for right heart tumor biopsy; leaves open need for comparative validation.
Transthoracic echocardiography or transesophageal echocardiography is sometimes useful in intracardiac tumor biopsy. Intracardiac echocardiography was used as an alternative to either of these for performing a biopsy of a right cardiac tumor in a 79-year-old woman. The procedure was well tolerated and no complications occurred. Histopathological findings and immunohistological staining were compatible with the diagnosis of neurogenic sarcoma.
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