title: Two-dimensional echocardiography and B-mode ultrasonography for the diagnosis of loculated pericardial effusion.
abstract: Two cases of loculated pericardial effusion resulting in cardiac tamponade are presented. The loculated nature and extent of the effusion was best defined by two-dimensional echocardiography or B- mode ultrasonography. Cross-sectional images should probably be obtained in all cases of suspected loculated pericardial effusion and in patients in whom the interpretation of the M-mode echocardiogram is equivocal as to the presence or absence of pericardial effusion.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014463:Ultrasonography