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Purposeful use of multimodality imaging in the diagnosis of caseous mitral annular calcification: a case series report

BACKGROUND: Caseous mitral annular calcification (CMAC) is a rare liquefactive variant of mitral annular calcification (MAC) and superficially mimics a cardiac vegetation or abscess. CMAC is viewed as a benign condition of MAC, while MAC has clinical implications for patients’ lives. Correctly diagn...

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Autores principales: Sveric, Krunoslav Michael, Platzek, Ivan, Golgor, Elena, Hoffmann, Ralf-Thorsten, Linke, Axel, Jellinghaus, Stefanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8734157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34991503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12880-021-00725-x