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Intense Gallium-67-citrate uptake in the heart indicated tumor involvement in the pericardium and myocardium in all three necropsied patients who presented with cardiac symptoms.
Intense Gallium-67-Citrate uptake in the heart may indicate pericardial and myocardial tumor involvement in patients with widespread malignancy.
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May flag cardiac tumor involvement in malignancy; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical use.
Tumor involvement of the heart is often found in post-mortem examination of patients who died of widespread malignancy. Recently, we saw four patients who had intense gallium uptake in the region of the heart. All of them had some cardiac symptoms and abnormal physical findings. Tumor was found in the pericardium and myocardium in all three patients who received necropsy.
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Yeh et al. (1978) studied this question. Intense Gallium-67-citrate uptake in the heart indicated tumor involvement in the pericardium and myocardium in all three necropsied patients who presented with cardiac symptoms.
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