title: Ockham's razor or Hickam's dictum: a right atrial mass following excision of left atrial myxoma.
abstract: We report a case of a 54-year-old man presenting with a right atrial mass 7 months after undergoing a left atrial myxoma excision surgery. The differential diagnosis included recurrent myxoma or thrombus. The patient underwent repeat open sternotomy on cardiopulmonary bypass. Histopathological evaluation of the mass revealed an organizing thrombus. This report is, to our knowledge, the first that demonstrates right atrial thrombus shortly following excision of left atrial myxoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91240, Israel. yigalab@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Yigal
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Abramowitz
authors.forename: Gidon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Perlman
authors.forename: Eli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: Ronen
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beeri
authors.forename: Tova
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chajek-Shaul
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leibowitz
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D014463:Ultrasonography