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Echocardiography detects a right atrial papillary fibroelastoma in an asymptomatic patient, the fourth reported case.
This case highlights a rare presentation of a papillary fibroelastoma in the right atrium, detectable by echocardiography.
Incidental right atrial papillary fibroelastoma on echocardiography; extends four prior cases but leaves management open.
We present a patient with a right atrial mass, which was detected by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography. The patient was asymptomatic on presentation. The mass was subsequently confirmed by gross and microscopic examination to be a papillary fibroelastoma. To the best of our knowledge this is only the fourth such report of this tumor in this location.
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Singh et al. (2004) studied this question. A papillary fibroelastoma was detected by echocardiography in the right atrium of an asymptomatic patient, representing only the fourth reported case of this tumor in this location.
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