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The New Zealand Medical Journal

 Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, 28-October-2005, Vol 118 No 1224

A corpulent heart
Constantin Marcu, Tjeerd Germans, Aernout Beek, Albert Van Rossum
A 62-year-old man with a prior history of systemic hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and pulmonary emphysema underwent a transthoracic echocardiographic examination (TTE).
The echocardiogram, which was of suboptimal quality, raised the suspicion of a right atrial mass. To better characterise this finding, a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam was performed (Figure 1 and Figure 2).
Figure 1
Figure 2
Questions—What does the MRI show? What is the diagnosis? Answers
     
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