This case highlights the diagnostic dilemma of left ventricular masses on echocardiography and demonstrates that surgical excision of large, mobile thrombi is effective in preventing recurrent embolic events.
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Echocardiographic features of LV masses can remain inconclusive between thrombus and tumor; leaves open the need for multimodality imaging in ambiguous cases.
Kumar et al. (2016) studied this question.
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