Cardiac Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor

Tommaso D'Angelo; Silvio Mazziotti; Maria Cristina Inserra; Francesco De Luca; Salvatore Agati; Emilia Magliolo; Faraz Pathan; Alfredo Blandino; Placido Romeo

doi:10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.119.009443

Cardiac Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Sep;12(9):e009443. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.119.009443. Epub 2019 Sep 10.

Authors

Tommaso D'Angelo¹, Silvio Mazziotti¹, Maria Cristina Inserra², Francesco De Luca³, Salvatore Agati⁴, Emilia Magliolo⁵, Faraz Pathan^{6

7}, Alfredo Blandino¹, Placido Romeo²

Affiliations

¹ Section of Radiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Morphological and Functional Imaging (T.D., S.M., A.B.), "G. Martino" University Hospital Messina, Italy.
² Department of Radiology (M.C.I., P.R.), "S. Vincenzo" Hospital Taormina, Messina, Italy.
³ Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatric, Gynecologic, Microbiologic and Biomedical Sciences (F.D.L.), "G. Martino" University Hospital Messina, Italy.
⁴ Mediterranean Pediatric Cardiology Center, "Bambino Gesù" Children's Hospital, Taormina, Messina, Italy (S.A.).
⁵ Department of Pathology (E.M.), "S. Vincenzo" Hospital Taormina, Messina, Italy.
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Nepean Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (F.P.).
⁷ "C. Perkins" Centre, Nepean Clinical School-Sydney University, New South Wales, Australia (F.P.).

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor; cardiac mass; cardiac pseudotumor; diagnosis, differential; heart neoplasms; magnetic resonance imaging; myofibroblasts.

Publication types

Case Reports
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Child
Contrast Media
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography
Granuloma, Plasma Cell
Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Neoplasms / surgery
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine
Male
Neoplasms, Muscle Tissue / diagnostic imaging*
Neoplasms, Muscle Tissue / surgery

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Contrast Media