CT diagnosis of left atrial thrombus undiagnosed by echocardiography

Multislice computed tomography for detecting and assessing intracardiac thrombi

“…The most common reason of CT referral was verification of lesions detected during echocardiography. There are reports about thrombi undetected by echocardiography and detected by CT (6)(7)(8). Kitayama and co-workers (7) underline a special value of CT in the diagnosis of right atrium thrombi, particularly with accompanying atrial fibrillation.…”