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Congenital pericardial defect: a case of right pericardial partial absence with normal partial pleura

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Congenital pericardial defect (CPD) is a rare cardiovascular anomaly. A right-sided CPD is much rarer than left-sided defects. Usually both the pericardium and parietal pleura are absent. We report a rare case of a right partial CPD involving the right atrial appendage, suspected by computed tomography and cine magnetic resonance imaging, and confirmed by thoracoscopy, which also demonstrated a normal parietal pleura.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Franco Verde, Kenichi Yokoyama, Yayoi Tsukahara, Masakiyo Nomura and Seiya Matsuyama for their smart advice.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan

    Shun Ono, Tamaki Ichikawa, Misako Iino, Yuri Yamada, Tatsuya Sekiguchi, Dai Joishi & Yutaka Imai

  2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan

    Tomoki Nakagawa, Naohiro Aruga & Masayuki Iwazaki

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Ono, S., Ichikawa, T., Iino, M. et al. Congenital pericardial defect: a case of right pericardial partial absence with normal partial pleura. Jpn J Radiol 33, 153–156 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11604-014-0387-9

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