Vol 15, No 3 (2020)
Case report
Published online: 2020-10-23
Left atrium tumor imitating the clinical image of acute pulmonary embolism
DOI: 10.5603/FC.2020.0032
Folia Cardiologica 2020;15(3):255-257.
Abstract
We present a case of left atrium tumor in computed tomography angiography images that imitated acute pulmonary embolism in the clinical picture.
Keywords: left atrium tumoracute pulmonary embolismcomputed tomography angiography
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