• Corrado Tagliati, Marco Fogante, Anna Palmisano, Federica Catapano, Costanza Lisi, Lorenzo Monti, Giuseppe Lanni, Federico Cerimele, Antonio Bernardini, Luca Procaccini, Giulio Argalia, Paolo Esposto Pirani, Matteo Marcucci, Alberto Rebonato, Cecilia Cerimele, Alessandra Luciano, Matteo Cesarotto, Manuel Belgrano, Lorenzo Pagnan, Alessandro Sarno, Maria Assunta Cova, Fiammetta Ventura, Luana Regnicolo, Gabriele Polonara, Lucia Uguccioni, Alessia Quaranta, Liliana Balardi, Alessandro Barbarossa, Giulia Stronati, Federico Guerra, Marcello Chiocchi, Marco Francone, Antonio Esposito, and Nicolò Schicchi.
• Radiologia, AST Pesaro Urbino, 61121 Pesaro, Italy.
• Medicina (Kaunas). 2023 Dec 29; 60 (1).

AbstractA cardiac lesion detected at ultrasonography might turn out to be a normal structure, a benign tumor or rarely a malignancy, and lesion characterization is very important to appropriately manage the lesion itself. The exact relationship of the mass with coronary arteries and the knowledge of possible concomitant coronary artery disease are necessary preoperative information. Moreover, the increasingly performed coronary CT angiography to evaluate non-invasively coronary artery disease leads to a rising number of incidental findings. Therefore, CT and MRI are frequently performed imaging modalities when echocardiography is deemed insufficient to evaluate a lesion. A brief comprehensive overview about diagnostic radiological imaging and the clinical background of cardiac masses and pseudomasses is reported.

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