Eustachian valve mimicking a right atrial cystic tumor

We report the case of a 65-year-old patient referred to our hospital for st roke. In the course of the diagnostic procedure, a transesophageal echocard iography was performed and showed at first sight a mass attached to the rig ht aspect of the interatrial septum and mimicking a cystic tumor. But after performing multiple views, it was in fact demonstrated a large Eustachian valve with its extremity attached to the right aspect of the interatrial se ptum. The increasing use of transesophageal echocardiography to evaluate pa tients makes it important for echocardiographers to recognize this anatomic entity and its normal variants.