title: Diagnosis of left atrial myxoma following systemic embolism.
abstract: Cardiac myxomas are rare and noted for their varied clinical manifestations. Consequently, the diagnosis is often unsuspected until the symptoms and signs become advanced and obvious, or when the diagnosis is made fortuitously during echocardiography. This report illustrates a case in point in which the diagnosis was made on transthoracic echocardiography and amplified using transesophageal echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Cardiac Department, National University Hospital, Singapore.
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sebastian
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Choo
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Raju
authors.forename: C N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Yeoh
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tay
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000473:pathology; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology*