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A surgical management of aortic insufficiency concomitant with mediastinal well-differentiated liposarcoma
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan. taoki@med.niigata-u.ac.jp
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|February 12, 2000
Abstract:
We present a rare case of a mediastinal liposarcoma concomitant with aortic insufficiency due to myxoid degeneration of the aortic valve. Because the patient's left ventricle was in moderate dilatation and a posterolateral thoracotomy combined with median sternotomy was required in order to perform a complete resection of a mediastinal liposarcoma, it was decided to carry out aortic valve surgery and tumor excision in one operation.