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Echocardiography remains the imaging modality of choice for the detection and assessment of intra-cardiac masses (typically thrombi, tumors, and vegetations). There is an incremental value to three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) over two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) in the evaluation of intra-cardiac masses. 3DE and in particular 3DTEE provides unprecedented en-face anatomic details of intra-cardiac masses and their relationship to surrounding structures in a 3D space that simulates reality, and from a single acoustic window, thus obviating the need for probe manipulation including off-axis imaging that is often necessary with 2DE. 2DE is also limited by the finite width of the tomographic slices. Moreover, size, shape, and inner composition of cardiac masses can be assessed using 3D cropping tools including multiplanar reconstruction of the 3D volumetric data set.
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Yang, H.S., Kim, TY., Maalouf, J.F., Chandrasekaran, K. (2022). Role of 3DE in Assessment of Cardiac Masses: Incremental Value over 2DE. In: Maalouf, J.F., Faletra, F.F., Asirvatham, S.J., Chandrasekaran, K. (eds) Practical 3D Echocardiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72941-7_26
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