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ArticleHawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health2018

Right Atrium Invasion of Tumor Thrombus from Hepatocellular Carcinoma Incidentally Found on Transthoracic Echocardiogram.

Tomoki Sempokuya, Dennis T Bolger

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Article in Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tomoki SempokuyaDepartment of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI.
Dennis T BolgerDepartment of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI.
Queen's Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly aggressive malignancy in which tumor thrombus can invade portal and hepatic veins in late stages. However, an antemortem diagnosis of right atrial invasion by tumor thrombus is very rare and confers a poor prognosis. We report a patient with antemortem diagnosis of tumor thrombus in the right atrium incidentally found by transthoracic echocardiogram which was later confirmed with CT scan of abdomen with IV contrast. The patient was also noted to have an acute increase in alpha-fetoprotein (AFP). Our case suggests the importance of imaging studies and monitoring AFP levels in patients with long standing HCC.

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AgedEchocardiographyFemaleHeart AtriaHumansLiver NeoplasmsNeoplasmsPortal VeinThrombosisHepatocellular carcinomahepatomatransthoracic echocardiogramtumor thrombus

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PMID29888115
PMCPMC5993993
OpenAlexW2997341852

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