Echogenic mass
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Echogenic masses are echocardiographic findings that attached to the valve leaflet. Possible causes are;
- vegetation
- myxomatous degeneration
- cuspal tear
- reduntant chordae
- fibroelastoma
- fibrinous strand
- Lamb's excrescence
- Beam width artifact