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Cross-sectional echocardiography demonstrates a prominent, expanded left atrial appendage as a distinctive diagnostic feature of congenital pericardial defects.
Expansion of the left atrial appendage on cross-sectional echocardiography is a distinctive diagnostic feature of congenital pericardial defects.
May aid echo diagnosis of congenital pericardial defects in select cases; case-report evidence leaves open prospective validation.
A case report of a congenital defect of the pericardium in which the cross-sectional appearance of a prominent left atrial appendage is similar to the previously reported angiographic diagnostic appearance.
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RUYS et al. (1983) studied this question. Cross-sectional echocardiography demonstrates a prominent, expanded left atrial appendage as a distinctive diagnostic feature of congenital pericardial defects.
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