European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on October 24, 2007
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm475
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Papillary fibroelastoma of the mitral valve: appearance in 64-slice spiral computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and echocardiography
1 Center of Cardiac Surgery, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Krankenhausstrasse 12, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
2 Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 9131 853 3985; fax: +49 9131 853 2768. E-mail address: thomas.strecker@herz.imed.uni-erlangen.de
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A 63-year-old woman with an acute stroke of unknown origin was referred to our hospital for further diagnostic evaluation. Contrast-enhanced ECG-gated 64-slice spiral computed tomography depicted a well-defined, pedunculated, mobile,