Imaging myocardial carcinoid with T2-STIR CMR

William A Schiavone , Christopher Baker and Sanjay K Prasad

Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

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Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2008, 10:14doi:10.1186/1532-429X-10-14


Published:	19 March 2008

Abstract

We used T2-STIR (Short Tau Inversion Recovery) cardiovascular magnetic resonance to demonstrate carcinoid tumor metastases to the heart and liver in a 64-year-old woman with a biopsy-proven ileal carcinoid tumor who was referred because of an abnormal echocardiogram.