Giant left atrial thrombus in advanced mitral stenosis diagnosed by echocardiography and multislice CT--case report
Tomaszewski, A.; Czekajska-Chehab, E.; Drop, A.; Widomska-Czekajska, T.
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska. Sectio D Medicina 58(2): 330-334
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0066-2240 PMID: 15323215 Document Number: 560577
The paper presents a rare case of the giant left atrial thrombus in the advanced stage of mitral stenosis. The clinical course of the disease was analyzed and the possibilities of imaging the lesions by echocardiography and multi-slice computed tomography were compared.
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