Image Question-52
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What is the marked structure in the image?
What is the marked structure in the image?
[A] Ball valve Thrombus
[B] Large Vegetation
[C] LA Myxoma
[D] Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis
Most common primary cardiac tumor
- Myxoma
What is the most common site of Cardiac myxoma
- 75% of myxomas originate in the left atrium either at the mitral annulus or the fossa ovalis border of the interatrial septum
- 20% arise from the right atrium
- 5% stem from both atria and the ventricle

Most common site of Malakoplakia – GU tract, particularly bladder
Most common site of Malakoplakia in Gastrointestinal tract – colon, followed by stomach and duodenum