Transoesophageal echocardiographic visualization of renal cyst mimicking aortic aneurysm.
We report a tricky case of a 63-year-old man with previous coronary artery bypass graft surgery in whom transoesophageal echocardiography revealed a voluminous echolucent cavity simulating aortic ectasia but that proved to be of nephrogenic origin.
Vitarelli
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Cardiac Department, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. vitar@tiscalinet.it
Conde
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Di Benedetto
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D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D007690:Polycystic Kidney Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*