Key result
Echo diagnosis of cardiac masses requires evaluating mass characteristics and clinical context to avoid pitfalls.
Why the study?
Potential errors in echocardiographic diagnosis of cardiac mass lesions occur due to unclear delineation of size, shape, mobility, and attachment of masses.
Design
Review of transthoracic and transesophageal 2-D echocardiography diagnostic pitfalls
Authors
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Requires careful multiplane imaging to avoid missing small or atypically attached masses; leaves open incremental value of 3D echocardiography.
Echocardiographic diagnosis of cardiac masses requires careful assessment of size, shape, mobility, attachment, and clinical correlation to avoid pitfalls.
Mohsin Alam (1993) conducted a review in Intracardiac and Extracardiac Masses. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiographic diagnosis of cardiac masses requires careful evaluation of mass characteristics and clinical correlation to avoid pitfalls from atypical attachments, small size, or normal variants.
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