Remnants of the right valve of the sinus venosus presenting as a right atrial mass on transthoracic echocardiography

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 573-576

  Ducharme, Anique ^a   Tardif, Jean Claude ^a   Mercier, Lise Andrée ^a   Burelle, Denis ^a   Rodrigues, Andressa ^a   Petitclerc, Robert ^a   Pelletier, Guy ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac mass; Right valve of the sinus venosus; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; SINUS VENOSUS; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030857011     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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