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This is a challenging case of a mass described as an intra cardiac, but proved to be outside the heart by 3D TEE and subsequently by surgery.
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3-D TEE short axis view of the mitral valve, as seen from the left atrium (LA). In this “surgeon’s view” 3D TEE revealed an extracardiac mass (AVI 3302 kb)
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Rohani, A. (2019). Huge Calcified Mass, Inside Heart or Outside?. In: Clinical Cases in the Echocardiography Lab . Clinical Cases in Cardiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16618-2_38
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