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Atrial dissection-like appearance caused by ileus due to metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Mehmet Dogan1, Ozcan Ozeke, Dursun Aras
1Department of Cardiology, Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|August 17, 2006
Abstract:
Atrial dissection is an uncommon entity, defined as a gap from the mitral or tricuspid annular area to the interatrial septum or atrial wall, creating a new chamber with or without communication into the true left or right atrium. We present the interesting images of an atrial dissection-like appearance in the right atrium, which was actually caused by an ileus due to metastatic renal cell carcinoma in a 82-year-old man. The causes of true atrial dissection were also briefly discussed.

