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Roentgen diagnosis successfully identified a calcified mural thrombus during life, which was subsequently confirmed by necropsy.
Case Report (n=1)
Demonstrates the feasibility of diagnosing calcified mural thrombi during life using roentgenography.
Roentgenography may enable antemortem detection of calcified mural thrombi; single case leaves open diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility.
Considerable interest has been aroused in the last few years regarding the roentgen diagnosis of mural thrombi. Yet, in reviewing the literature on this subject, I find that few mural thrombi have been roentgenologically recognized during life and the diagnosis confirmed by necropsy. From my own experience and that of other observers it is apparent that calcified mural thrombi usually occur in mitral stenosis and are commonly situated in the left auricle. Only 5 cases of mural thrombosis have been reported in the literature. These consist of 3 cases of calcified mural thrombi reported by Scholz,1Besser and Schilling2and Heeren3and 2 cases of noncalcified mural thrombi reported by Arendt4and Fussl.5 Prompted by this situation, I wish to report a case of calcified mural thrombus in which the condition was recognized during life and the diagnosis confirmed by necropsy. Roentgenoscopic and aimed roentgenographic
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Louis H. Berk (1939) conducted a case report in Calcified mural thrombus (n=1). Roentgen diagnosis was evaluated on Diagnosis confirmed by necropsy. Roentgen diagnosis successfully identified a calcified mural thrombus during life, which was subsequently confirmed by necropsy.
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