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Wiley, Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, 3(42), p. 185-188, 2013

DOI: 10.1002/jcu.22087

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Thrombus in the left atrial septal pouch mimicking myxoma

Journal article published in 2013 by Keiko Shimamoto ORCID, Takuji Kawagoe, Kazuoki Dai, Ichiro Inoue
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

A 15 × 13 mm mobile ovoid mass attached via a 15 × 5 mm stalk to the interatrial septum in the left atrium was detected on transesophageal echocardiography and was diagnosed as a myxoma in a 70-year-old woman with chronic atrial fibrillation. She was prescribed anticoagulant therapy with warfarin before elective cardiac surgery and demonstrated no thromboembolic event during a 2.5-month period. Preoperative transesophageal echocardiography showed the disappearance of the intracardiac mass and the presence of a left atrial septal pouch, suggesting that the initial image was a thrombus originating from the left atrial septal pouch. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2013.