Intracardiac tuberculomas are extremely rare, and cardiac involvement in tuberculosis accounts for only 0.5% of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. We report for the first time incremental value of live/real time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography over two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in the assessment of a tuberculoma involving the left atrium and left atrial appendage.
Keywords: echocardiography; intracardiac mass; left atrial appendage; left atrium; three-dimensional echocardiography; transesophageal echocardiography; tuberculoma; tuberculosis; two-dimensional echocardiography.
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