Primary cardiac tumours are rare, with an autopsy incidence ranging from 0· 001% to 0·
030%. Three-quarters of these tumours are benign and nearly half of the benign tumours are …

Primary cardiac neoplasms are rare, and are more commonly benign than malignant.
However, metastases are by far the most common cardiac neoplasms. MRI allows …

Figure 2. Axial unenhanced T1-weighted (a), fat-saturated T2-weighted (b), and contrast-
enhanced T1-weighted (c) MR images show an intramyocardial mass (short straight arrow) …

The percutaneous treatment of pericardial effusion resulting in cardiac tamponade has
undergone an evolution in recent years with the use of less invasive drainage techniques in …

Intracardiac metastasis as the initial presentation of malignant neoplasm is very rare. We
report here on a 64-year-old man with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) initially …

MRI has become the preferred noninvasive imaging modality for the heart and great vessels.
The substantial technological progress achieved in recent years has provided the user with …

Among the available imaging techniques, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is gaining an
increasing role in the cardiologic setting because its specific properties such as the use of …

A rare case of a primary fibrosarcoma of the liver infiltrating the right heart is described in a
72-year-old woman. The patient presented with a history of progressive dyspnea and ascites …

A female patient had complete excision of a left choroid melanoma at 25years of age.
Thirteen years later, she developed brain metastases, which were successfully treated with …

Most patients who have end stage thoracic disease have moderate to severe dyspnea. The
dyspnea may be the result of the underlying lung disease, localized disease progression, or …