PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - L S Perry
AU  - J F King
AU  - H J Zeft
AU  - J C Manley
AU  - C M Gross
AU  - L S Wann
TI  - Two-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of left atrial myxoma.
AID  - 10.1136/hrt.45.6.667
DP  - 1981 Jun 01
TA  - British Heart Journal
PG  - 667--671
VI  - 45
IP  - 6
4099  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/45/6/667.short
4100  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/45/6/667.full
SO  - Heart1981 Jun 01; 45
AB  - We performed M-mode echocardiograms on 11 patients who later had left atrial myxomas removed at operations. Seven of these 11 patients were also examined with two-dimensional echocardiography. M-mode echocardiography showed the characteristic pattern of a left atrial mass entering the mitral orifice during diastole in nine of the 11 patients. M-mode echocardiographic findings were equivocal in two patients because a short tumour stalk prevented significant motion of the tumour. Cross-sectional echocardiography clearly showed a left atrial mass attached by a stalk to the interatrial septum in all seven patients examined, including one patient in whom the tumour was immobile. Three-dimensional measurements of tumour size made from orthogonal cross-sectional echocardiographic planes were within 6 mm of similar measurements made on the excised tumours.