Detection of left atrial myxoma with SPECT cardiac imaging

A 69-year-old man with a left atrial myxoma underwent a gated cardiac blood pool radionuclide study that failed to visualize the cardiac tumor on either the planar images or on the composite cineangiograms from the anterior and 45 degrees LAO projections. A nongated cardiac SPECT examination, howeve...

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Published in:Clinical nuclear medicine Vol. 14; no. 2; p. 101
Main Authors: McLaughlin, M G, Swayne, L C, Mangiola, S
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 01.02.1989
Subjects:
Aged
Heart Atria
Heart Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Humans
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell - complications
Male
Myxoma - diagnostic imaging
Tomography, Emission-Computed
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
ISSN:0363-9762
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Summary:A 69-year-old man with a left atrial myxoma underwent a gated cardiac blood pool radionuclide study that failed to visualize the cardiac tumor on either the planar images or on the composite cineangiograms from the anterior and 45 degrees LAO projections. A nongated cardiac SPECT examination, however, easily demonstrated the atrial myxoma in its characteristic location, adjacent to the interatrial septum. SPECT dramatically improved the image contrast; provided views in transaxial, coronal, and sagittal planes; and allowed direct comparison with computed tomography. Gated cardiac SPECT may be expected to provide a more accurate analysis of the complex motion and attachment site of these intracardiac tumors, as well as a more accurate tumor volume analysis.
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ISSN:0363-9762
DOI:10.1097/00003072-198902000-00006