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Transesophageal echocardiography-directed biopsies via a minithoracotomy successfully diagnosed an extremely rare primary cardiac poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma in a 54-year-old man.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the utility of transesophageal echocardiography-directed biopsies via minithoracotomy for diagnosing rare primary cardiac tumors when imaging alone is insufficient.
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Single-case TEE-directed minithoracotomy biopsy diagnosed rare cardiac neuroendocrine carcinoma; leaves open its diagnostic role beyond this report.
Diagnosis of cardiac neoplasm has become more feasible with the use of echocardiography, but imaging is sometimes not enough to establish a diagnosis, and a biopsy is required to determine the diagnosis and treatment. Transesophageal echocardiography-directed biopsies via a minithoracotomy revealed an extremely rare primary cardiac tumor, a poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma, in the left atrium of a 54-year-old man who presented with syncope and hypotension.
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Carmona et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac neuroendocrine carcinoma (n=1). Transesophageal echocardiography-directed biopsies via a minithoracotomy was evaluated on Diagnosis of cardiac neoplasm. Transesophageal echocardiography-directed biopsies via a minithoracotomy successfully diagnosed an extremely rare primary cardiac poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma in a 54-year-old man.
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