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Mediastinal Tumor Presenting as Expanding Aortic Aneurysm Diagnosed by Transesophageal Echocardiography
Author(s) -
MICALI ILIANA D.,
JACOBS LARRY E.,
IOLI ALFRED,
KOTLER MORRIS N.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1996.tb00944.x
Subject(s) - mediastinal mass , medicine , superior vena cava , aneurysm , radiology , aortic aneurysm , mediastinal tumor , cardiology , mediastinum
This article describes a patient with suspected expanding ascending aortic aneurysm in whom trans‐esophageal echocardiography appropriately determined the presence of a mediastinal soft tissue mass and visualized compression of the superior vena cava.