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echocardiogram demonstrating a left ventricular mass in a 62-year-old asymptomatic male patient
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F1
Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a round, pedunculated, mobile mass (size, 20mm X 13mm) in the LV outflow tract that seemed to arise from the LV side of the interventricular septum, but was without calcification, hyperlucency, or vasculature (Figure 1).
intraoperative findings: the mass pulled through the aortotomy
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F2
After aortotomy, a jelly-like mass became visible in the LV outflow tract through the aortic cusps (Figure 2).
histopathologic examination confirms the diagnosis of myxoma (H&E, x40)
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F3
The results of the histopathologic examination of the excised specimen were consistent with the diagnosis of a myxoma (Figure 3).