Multiple recurrence of a "sporadic" (non-familial) cardiac myxoma.
This report describes a myxoma with three recurrences, two of them synchronous neoplasms in both atrial chambers, without evidence of familial history or features of the "myxoma complex" (lentiginosis, other non-cardiac myxomas and endocrine overactivity). The patient underwent complete resection of the myxoma with their surrounding tissue 3 times between 1983 and 1992. At the time of writing no other myxoma has been diagnosed in this patient.
Cardiac Surgery Unit, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
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Aroca
J M
JM
Mesa
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Dominguez
J M
JM
Oliver
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Ramirez
J E
JE
Centeno
D004452:Echocardiography; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D009232:Myxoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation