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Primary cardiac fibroma with persistent left superior vena cava in a young adult: Contrast-enhanced CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT finding

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  1. WeiLun PET Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    Entao Liu MD, **aochun Zhang MD, Taotao Sun MD, Siyun Wang MD, PhD & Shuxia Wang MD, PhD

  2. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Guangdong Provincial Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    Zerui Chen MD

  3. Department of Cardiology, Vascular Center, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    Haojian Dong MD

  4. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    Chao Liu MD

  5. Division of Adult Echocardiography, Guangdong Provincial Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

    Qiu **e MD

  6. Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Weilun Building, Room 517, 5/F, 106 Zhongshan Er Road, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China

    Shuxia Wang MD, PhD

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Liu, E., Zhang, X., Sun, T. et al. Primary cardiac fibroma with persistent left superior vena cava in a young adult: Contrast-enhanced CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT finding. J. Nucl. Cardiol. 27, 1837–1840 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-019-01825-6

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