title: Long-term remission after resection, chemotherapy, and irradiation of a metastatic myxoma.
abstract: Malignant local or metastatic myxomatous tumors of the heart are rare and sometimes present with an unpredictable outcome. The present report demonstrates an unusual case of left atrial myxoma with a rather strange distribution of metastases that had long-term remission after combined surgical resection, chemotherapy, and irradiation of cerebral and pulmonary metastases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bernet
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Stulz
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Carrel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000628:therapy*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D012074:Remission Induction / Q000379:methods