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BioMed Central, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 1(9), 2014

DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-9-14

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A rare case of primary cardiac B cell lymphoma

Journal article published in 2014 by Andreas Habertheuer ORCID, Marek Ehrlich, Dominik Wiedemann, Bruno Mora, Claus Rath, Alfred Kocher
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Abstract

Primary cardiac lymphomas represent an extremely rare entity of extranodal lymphomas and should be distinguished from secondary cardiac involvement of disseminated lymphomas belonging to the non-Hodgkin’s classification of blood cancers. Only 90 cases have been reported in literature. Presentation of cardiac lymphomas on imaging studies may not be unambiguous since they potentially mimic other cardiac neoplasms including myxomas, angiosarcoma or rhadomyomas and therefore require multimodality cardiac imaging, endomyocardial biopsy, excisional intraoperative biopsy and pericardial fluid cytological evaluation to establish final diagnosis.