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| CASE REPORT |
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| Year : 1979 | Volume
: 25
| Issue : 4 | Page : 237-238 |
Phantom echoes resembling a myxoma in mitral valve prolapse
AS Vengsarkar, JJ Dalal, KG Nair
Department of Cardiology, K.E.M Hospital, Parel, Bombay 400012, India
Correspondence Address:
A S Vengsarkar
Department of Cardiology, K.E.M Hospital, Parel, Bombay 400012
India
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PMID: 529185 
This is a case report of a patient who presented clinically with features of mitral valve prolapse. Echocardiography revealed, in addition to a systolic mitral valve prolapse, variegated shadows behind the anterior mitral leaflet characteristic of a myxoma. At surgery the prolapse of the posterior mitral leaflet was confirmed, but no myxoma was present. This case represents a rare false positive echocardiogram suggesting a myxoma in a patient with prolapsed mitral valve.
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