Transthoracic echocardiographic power motion tissue imaging of an intracardiac tumor that could not be seen with conventional transthoracic echocardiographic recordings

W C Maxted Jr; D S Segar; S G Sawada; T X Aufiero; H Feigenbaum

doi:10.1016/s0894-7317(98)70144-0

Transthoracic echocardiographic power motion tissue imaging of an intracardiac tumor that could not be seen with conventional transthoracic echocardiographic recordings

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1998 Oct;11(10):989-91. doi: 10.1016/s0894-7317(98)70144-0.

Authors

W C Maxted Jr¹, D S Segar, S G Sawada, T X Aufiero, H Feigenbaum

Affiliation

¹ Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, USA.

PMID: 9804107
DOI: 10.1016/s0894-7317(98)70144-0

Abstract

Power motion imaging allows interrogation of low-velocity tissue. By means of power motion imaging with 2 different late-model echographs we identified an intra-atrial tumor that was undetectable on conventional transthoracic echocardiograms.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / diagnostic imaging*
Male
Retrospective Studies