title: Left atrial myxoma. Evaluation with transoesophageal echocardiographic and real time three-dimensional imaging.
abstract: Myxoma is the most common benign cardiac neoplasm. A 66-year-old woman presented with a large left atrial myxoma, which was detected by a real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) and a real-time three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (RT3D-TEE) approach. RT3DE and RT3D-TEE proved to be techniques that can provide additional contributions to the diagnostic investigation of structural heart diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lampropoulos
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bogaert
authors.forename: J U
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Voigt
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Budts
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D009232:Myxoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*