Images in Emergency Medicine: Left Atrial Myxoma

Abstract

This visual diagnosis case summary presents the case of a 64 year old male who presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain and who was subsequently found to have a very large left sided atrial myxoma. Additionally, it presents the most common findings for left and right sided atrial myxomas with computed tomography and ultrasound imaging of the left atrial myxoma.

Keywords

• echocardiography
• cardiac tumors
• myxoma