Cardiac Mesothelial/monocytic-incidental-excrescence: More Than an Artifactual Lesion?

Overview

Journal Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialties Cardiology & Vascular Diseases
General Surgery
Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2008 Sep 11

PMID 18782786

Citations 7

Authors

Stefano Censi

Andrea DellAmore

Rita Conti

Paolo Lorenzini

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Abstract

Mesothelial/monocytic incidental cardiac excrescence (MICE) is a benign finding made up of a mixture of cuboidal mesothelial cells, histiocytes and fibrine and is mainly found incidentally during open heart surgery, commonly after cardiac catheterization. Clinical importance of this lesion has been emphasized because of its potential confusion with malignancies, especially with metastatic carcinoma. We report a case of an asymptomatic 72-year-old man with incidental finding of a pericardial effusion and a small mass attached to the left appendage.

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