title: Transcutaneous continuous wave Doppler ultrasound in the diagnosis of left atrial myxoma.
abstract: Six cases of left atrial myxoma were studied using transcutaneous, continuous-wave, low-frequency Doppler ultrasound. The recordings, made from the suprasternal notch and the cardiac apex, showed characteristic deflections that coincided with tumor motion and provided a useful ancillary technique for noninvasively confirming the echocardiographic diagnosis of atrial myxoma.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003971:Diastole; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006346:Heart Septum; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013599:Systole; D014463:Ultrasonography