Extracardiac osteophytic deformation of the left atrium: an unusual anatomic finding during atrial fibrillation ablation

Heart Rhythm. 2011 Aug;8(8):1305. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.04.010. Epub 2010 Apr 8.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Atrial Fibrillation / surgery*
  • Catheter Ablation
  • Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac
  • Heart Atria / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Incidental Findings
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Osteoarthritis / pathology
  • Osteophyte / complications*
  • Osteophyte / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Veins / surgery
  • Shoulder Joint / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods