Left atrial thrombi can masquerade as myxomas, presenting a diagnostic challenge in the evaluation of cardiac masses.
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Intracardiac masses represent a clinical challenge. The differential diagnosis is extensive, and the gold standard for diagnosis, which is biopsy, is not easily achievable, resulting in an overreliance on noninvasive imaging to establish a diagnosis. We report two patients with left atrial thrombi misdiagnosed on echocardiography as myxomas.
Mahmoud et al. (Wed,) reported a other. Left atrial thrombi can masquerade as myxomas, presenting a diagnostic challenge in the evaluation of cardiac masses.