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Transesophageal echocardiographic cross-sectional (Panl A) and longitudinal (Panel B) images of the descending thoracic aorta showing the highly mobile, floating thrombus. The original lumen of the aorta (21 mm) is reduced by the thrombus to a circumferential patent lumen of 4-6 mm.
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Subsequently, a TEE was performed for evaluation of the cardiac cavities and of the thoracic aorta, revealing a large, pedunculated and hypermobile thrombus (Figure 1, Panl A and B) attached to a non-atherosclerotic aortic wall caudal of the left subclavian artery.
Thoraco-abdominal CT-scan image showing the thrombus in the thoracic aorta (arrow).
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