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Key points Newer echocardiographic techniques may provide incremental information to help characterize cardiac masses. Myocardial contrast echocardiography allows an improved definition of intracavity structures and an assessment of vascularity. The difference in the perfusion of cardiac masses may help distinguish…
Key points Most malignant cardiac tumors are metastatic, most commonly from lung and breast carcinomas, melanomas, soft tissue sarcomas, and renal carcinomas. Malignant primary cardiac tumors are rare and mostly consist of various sarcomas and lymphomas. Twenty-five percent of primary…
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Key points Vegetations are oscillating or nonoscillating intracardiac masses on the valves or other endocardial structures or intracardiac implanted materials. Vegetations are typically located on the upstream side of the valves, are usually irregularly and grotesquely shaped, and exhibit disordered…
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