title: Echocardiographic and surgical findings of a ball-like thrombus floating freely in the left atrium.
abstract: The M-Mode, two-dimensional echocardiographic and surgical findings of a ball-like thrombus floating freely in the left atrium are described in a patient with mitral stenosis. These echocardiographic features are so impressive that further diagnostic procedures are not required for operation.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000601:surgery; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery