title: Identification of Chiari's network with transesophageal echocardiography.
abstract: A prominent Chiari's network may be difficult to distinguish from pathologic right atrial masses on transthoracic echocardiography. We report a 38-year-old woman who had a cerebrovascular accident. Transthoracic echocardiogram revealed an atrial septal aneurysm and a mobile right atrial mass. This mass was correctly identified as Chiari's network on the basis of the transesophageal echocardiographic findings of a broad base of attachment in the right atrium and filamentous nature of the mass. These findings were confirmed at surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cujec
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mycyk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khouri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging