This case report demonstrates the utility of 2D and 3D echocardiography in visualizing epithelioid hemangioma of the mitral valve.
Adds rare mitral valve tumor to echo differential; hypothesis-generating case report requiring histologic confirmation.
We are describing two-dimensional and live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic as well as two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic findings in an elderly patient with epithelioid hemangioma involving the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve.
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