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We report a case of cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma the initial clinical features of which were pericardial effusion, clinical symptoms of congestive heart failure and probable pulmonary thromboembolism, in which echocardiography constituted the first approach to the diagnosis of cardiac tumor and MRI confirmed it, precisely delimiting the tumoral extension and possible infiltration of pericardiac structures. A brief literature review of this entity is given, the MRI findings obtained in our case are described, and we discuss the advantages and limitations of this technique as compared with other alternatives of image diagnosis.
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Received: 5 November 1997; Revision received: 6 April 1998; Accepted: 7 July 1998
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Villacampa, V., Villarreal, M., Ros, L. et al. Cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma: diagnosis by MR imaging. Eur Radiol 9, 634–637 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300050723
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