Abstract
Two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography is the most widely used diagnostic approach in the rare entity of heart tumors. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic usefulness of three-dimensional echocardiography in comparison with the two-dimensional technique in a rare clinical setting. Twenty-seven patients (18 women; mean age, 49.7 +/- 14 years) with a histologically proven diagnosis of a cardiac tumor were studied. The primary diagnosis was done by a two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (n = 9) and transesophageal echocardiography (n = 18). In addition, we performed three-dimensional transesophageal assessment in 5 patients with left atrial myxomas. The echocardiographic findings were compared with the intraoperative appearance and pathologic diagnosis. The echocardiographically suspected diagnosis of a heart tumor in 29 cases was histologically correct in 27 patients (myxomas, 20; epicardial lipoma, 1; malignant epicardial mesothelioma, 1; metastatic processes of hypernephromas, 2; and undifferentiated tumors of the pericardium, 3). Only the combination of multiplane transesophageal and three-dimensional echocardiography was able to demonstrate the shape, dimensions, location, origin, surface, th...Continue Reading
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