Amorphous calcific tumor of the mitral annulus echocardiographically mimicking a vegetation.
We describe echocardiographic findings in an elderly patient with histologically proven amorphous tumor involving the posterior mitral annulus, mimicking a vegetation.
Inamdar
Vatsal
V
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
Wanat
Francis E
FE
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Pothineni
Koteswara R
KR
Burri
Manjula V
MV
Kimmler
Stephen
S
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000473:pathology*