Imaging myocardial carcinoid with T2-STIR CMR.
Schiavone WA, Baker C, Prasad SK.
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. waschiavone@geisinger.edu
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.
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PMID: 18353183 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]PMCID: PMC2276499