Not all that glitters is gold
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intraoperative transesophageal ecocardiogrphyAbstract
We present the clinical case of a 75-year-old patient referred from another hospital to undergo myocardial revascularisation. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography revealed a rounded image in the right atrium, the first diagnosis of which was an atrial tumour. On entering extracorporeal circulation, a right atriotomy was performed to try to resect the possible tumour and, to everyone's surprise, what was inside the rolled-up right atrium was the guidewire used in the hospital from which this patient was referred.
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