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Does an ultrasonic cardiac echogram improve the preoperative diagnosis of left atrial myxoma compared to cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography in a patient with an atrial tumor?
Does an ultrasonic cardiac echogram improve the preoperative diagnosis of left atrial myxoma compared to cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography in a patient with an atrial tumor?
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Ultrasonic cardiac echogram is a simple, atraumatic method that can successfully diagnose elusive left atrial myxomas when invasive methods fail.
The correct preoperative diagnosis of a left atrial myxoma was established using the ultrasonic cardiac echogram in this patient. The findings at cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography were not diagnostic. It is suggested that the ultrasonic cardiac echogram is a simple atraumatic method for the diagnosis of an elusive condition.
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Richard L. Popp (1969) studied this question.
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