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LOUIS H. BERK, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1939;63(6):1183-1189.

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Considerable interest has been aroused in the last few years regarding the roentgen diagnosis of mural thrombi. Yet, in reviewing the literature on this subject, I find that few mural thrombi have been roentgenologically recognized during life and the diagnosis confirmed by necropsy.

From my own experience and that of other observers it is apparent that calcified mural thrombi usually occur in mitral stenosis and are commonly situated in the left auricle. Only 5 cases of mural thrombosis have been reported in the literature. These consist of 3 cases of calcified mural thrombi reported by Scholz,¹ Besser and Schilling² and Heeren³ and 2 cases of noncalcified mural thrombi reported by Arendt⁴ and Fussl.⁵

Prompted by this situation, I wish to report a case of calcified mural thrombus in which the condition was recognized during life and the diagnosis confirmed by necropsy.

Roentgenoscopic and aimed roentgenographic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the First Medical Division of the Bellevue Hospital, Dr. I. O. Woodruff, Director, and the Department of Laboratories, Dr. D. Symmers, Director.

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