False chordae tendineae: incidence and clinical meaning
Cangelosi, M.M.; Russo, R.; Van Dyke, A.; Gaudio, M.; Giordano, M.
Minerva Cardioangiologica 37(1-2): 51-54
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4725 PMID: 2725908 Document Number: 332599
The presence of false tendons (FT) was sought with M-mode and 2-D echocardiography in a consecutive series of 316 patients with a wide age range (13-73 yrs). FT were observed in 13 patients (4.1%), all of them in the left ventricular cavity. Their clinical significance is pointed out together with the possibility of diagnostic error with other pathological formations, particularly intracavitary thrombi.