[Percutaneous transvenous biopsy for the diagnosis of a right atrial myxoma]

G Ital Cardiol. 1999 Mar;29(3):308-11.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Intracardiac tumors are generally diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography and, more recently, magnetic resonance imaging. However, these techniques do not permit a histopathologic diagnosis. When surgery is not indicated because of limited hemodynamic changes but the benign nature of the tumoral mass is questionable, percutaneous transvenous biopsy, when technically feasible, may represent an alternative approach. In this case report, we utilized percutaneous transvenous biopsy to obtain specimens from a right atrial mass in a 39-year-old woman.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biopsy / instrumentation
  • Biopsy / methods
  • Echocardiography
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Female
  • Femoral Vein
  • Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Atria / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Myxoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Myxoma / pathology*
  • Ultrasonography, Interventional