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ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care

Caseous mitral annular calcification mimicking a lung tumor on chest X-ray.

Philip Dingli, Herbert Felice, Adrian Mizzi, Stephen Montefort

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Article in Journal of family medicine and primary care. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Caseous Calcification of the Mitral Annulus.Journal of radiology case reports · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Philip DingliDepartment of Cardiology, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.
Herbert FeliceDepartment of Cardiology, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.
Adrian MizziDepartment of Radiology, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.
Stephen MontefortDepartment of Medicine, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitral annular calcification (MAC) is a common condition of the mitral valve apparatus. A case involving caseous calcification, a rare variant of MAC is presented. This variant which has a benign course can present as an intracardiac mass and needs to be differentiated from more sinister causes of calcified cardiac masses such as tumor, abscess, and infective vegetation. Often, this requires multimodality imaging with echocardiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Features of caseous calcification of the mitral valve on these imaging modalities are reviewed as the associations and clinical features.

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lung cancerLung massmitral annular calcificationposterior mitral annular calcification

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PMID29302564
PMCPMC5749103

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