Multimodality imaging and surgical extraction successfully diagnosed and treated a primary benign cardiac tumor presenting as a giant left atrial mass.
May guide individualized management of giant left atrial masses; leaves open prospective validation of imaging protocols.
A middle-aged woman presented to the emergency department with unspecific symptoms developing over 2 weeks. Multimodality imaging revealed a large mass filling the left atrium with a large base adherent to the fossa ovalis and flow obstruction. After surgical extraction, the anatomopathological analysis was compatible with a primary benign cardiac tumor.
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