Left atrial mass: Thrombus mimicking myxoma

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 621-623

  Dhawan, Sumeesh ^a   Tak, Tahir ^a  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Left atrial mass; Myxoma; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MYXOMA; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 7044225958     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03135.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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