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Title: Incremental value of live/real time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography over the two-dimensional technique in the identification of accessory liver lobe presenting as a right atrial mass

Running head: Echocardiography of supernumerary liver lobe

Authors:

Nishank Patel Nooli, MD

Assistant Professor

Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia,

Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Panayotis Vardas, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Yashaswi Koguru, MBBS

Department of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Navin C. Nanda, MD

Division of Cardiovascular disease

Department of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Corresponding Author:

Nishank Patel Nooli, MD

Assistant Professor

Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia,

Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

619 19^th Street South, Suite 5210B

Birmingham, Alabama – 35249-6810

USA

Email: nnooli@uabmc.edu

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