Right heart free-floating thrombus after leg injury
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Right heart free-floating thrombus after leg injury.
1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 70-year-old male patient presented to our hospital for investigation of chest pain. He had a history of muscle injury at the right leg during farm work 10 days earlier. Two dimensional (2D) and three (3D) transthoracic echocardiographic examination visualised enlargement of right heart chambers, with a huge wormlike free-fl oating thrombus, approximately 7 cm in length, in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.12.2011.5366