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Ruptured cardiac angiosarcoma with pulmonary metastases: A rare disease with a common (mis)diagnosis!
- Source :
- Indian Heart Journal, Vol 64, Iss 6, Pp 603-606 (2012)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2012.
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Abstract
- In Indian settings pulmonary tuberculosis remains the most common diagnosis in a patient presenting with constitutional symptoms, hemoptysis and lung opacities. We describe a case report of a fifty-year-old woman who was receiving empirical anti-tubercular drugs for a metastatic illness to lungs arising from a primary angiosarcoma in the right atrium. This rare entity was misdiagnosed and typical echocardiographic findings suggested this diagnosis.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00194832
- Volume :
- 64
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Indian Heart Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.9de4e3917cb146f79c7ee20c143ff224
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2012.07.016