Recurrent cardiac myxoma: seeding or multifocal disease?
We describe a patient with left atrial myxoma followed by a second lesion in the left ventricle. Previous reports of "recurrent" myxoma were studied, with the following conclusions: There is little evidence for the process of myxoma seeding, local recurrence can occur through inadequate resection or malignant change, and many alleged recurrences are at a different site and multifocal disease occurs frequently in the familial setting.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Oxford Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, England.
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D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000473:pathology*; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D018365:Neoplasm, Residual / Q000473:pathology; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000473:pathology*