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Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has been successfully used in monitoring complex or high-risk interventions in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory. We report a case in which biplane TEE was used to facilitate the biopsy of a mobile right atrial mass.
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Chirillo, F., Risica, G. & Stritoni, P. Mobile right atrial mass biopsy guided by biplane transesophageal echocardiography. Int J Cardiac Imag 11, 201–203 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01143110
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