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Biatrial myxoma resembling an interatrial clot in transit on echocardiogram
E Umana1, M A Alpert, C V Massey
1Division of Cardiology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|November 5, 1999
Abstract:
A 47-year-old man had an embolic stroke. Transesophageal echocardiography showed biatrial, elongated, mobile masses that appeared interconnected via a patent foramen ovale. Echocardiography did not distinguish between an interatrial clot in transit and an atypical biatrial myxoma. Surgical resection and subsequent histopathologic examination identified the mass as a biatrial myxoma. This case identifies a limitation of echocardiography in the diagnosis of cardiac myxoma.