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Julio Gutiérrez de Loma1, José Francisco Valderrama Marcos, José María Melero Tejedor
1From the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain.
Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.)
|March 23, 2012
Abstract:
We report a single case of left atrial giant myxoma excision using the da Vinci S surgical system in a 47-year-old woman. A vacuum extractor device was designed to avoid tumor fragmentation or embolization. The myxoma was entirely removed under aspiration through the extractor device, achieving all the surgical tenets of myxoma excision.
