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Giuseppe D'Ancona1, Giuseppe Mamone, Gianluca Marrone
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Palermo, Italy. gdancona@ismett.edu
Abstract:
In this report we summarize a case of myocardial infarction that developed an apical ventricular aneurysm, which was surgically removed to re-expand and reappear as a pulsating chest wall mass 16 years later.
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