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A case of mislabeled textbooks: misnomer of the traditional "bicaval" view
Laura Vaskelyte1, Stefan Bertog1,2, Ilona Hofmann1
1CardioVascular Center Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
Abstract:
Since the early beginning of the transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) era, standardized tomographic views describing cardiac key structures have been provided. They have become the basis of TEE and have not been modified for decades. During our recent structural interventional cases, it has come to our attention that the structure frequently labeled "inferior vena cava" in textbooks and journal articles illustrating the bicaval TEE view is, in fact, the coronary sinus. Our manuscript illustrates our observation.
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