Detection of multiple papillary fibroelastomas of the tricuspid valve by transesophageal echocardiography.
A 66-year-old man without symptoms, referred for the treatment of moderate hypertension, was found to have a right atrial mass by two-dimensional echocardiography. On transesophageal echocardiography two masses were detected on the tricuspid valve, the first one on the posterior leaflet and the second smaller one on the anterior leaflet. These findings were confirmed at surgery. Histologic analysis revealed that the masses represented papillary fibroelastomas.
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Department of Medicine, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 10032.
Homma
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Di Tullio
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Hodges
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Arora
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Marboe
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Smith
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D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005350:Fibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery