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Atrial myxoma: tumour or trauma?
J Nolan1, P J Carder, P Bloomfield
1Department of Cardiology, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
British Heart Journal
|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
A mass lesion developed in the right atrium at the site of a trans-septal puncture after percutaneous balloon dilatation of the mitral valve in a man aged 74. The lesion had the pathological appearance of an atrial myxoma and seemed to have developed after trauma to the intra-atrial septum. This case suggests that at least some atrial myxomas are reactive rather than neoplastic in origin.