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Right atrial myxoma with cyanosis due to right-to-left shunting
J J Lee1, F N McKenzie, R Novick
1Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, London, Ontario.
The Canadian Journal of Cardiology
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
Primary cardiac tumours are uncommon entities, and myxoma is the most common, comprising about 50% of all these neoplasms. A case of a 43-year-old woman with right atrial myxoma and a shunt through a patent foramen ovale producing severe cyanosis is reported.