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A rare case of malignant lymphoma presenting initially as a cardiac tumor with heart failure symptoms was definitively diagnosed at autopsy after antemortem biopsies proved non-diagnostic.
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Malignant lymphoma can rarely present as a primary cardiac tumor with heart failure symptoms, highlighting the need to consider it in the differential diagnosis of cardiac masses.
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Consider lymphoma in cardiac mass differentials with HF; case report leaves open optimal antemortem diagnostics.
Terasawa et al. (1994) conducted a case report in Malignant lymphoma presenting as a cardiac tumor (n=1). Malignant lymphoma was evaluated. A rare case of malignant lymphoma presenting initially as a cardiac tumor with heart failure symptoms was definitively diagnosed at autopsy after antemortem biopsies proved non-diagnostic.
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