Carney complex: fourth time excision of recurrent atrial myxoma via left thoracotomy
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Recurrent Left Atrial Myxoma
YXOMA is an infrequent but important LYE intracardiac lesion which occurs most often in the left atrium. Although it has been suggested that atrial myxomas merely represent degenerated thrombi, evidence strongly favors a neoplastic origin.1 Since the first successful removal of an intracardiac myxoma in 1955,2 numerous reports dealing with surgical resection of these tumors have appeared in the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-201827