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Excision of papillary endocardial tumor
H Akagawa1, T Kawara, A Hirano
1Second Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Kurume University, Fukuoka, Japan.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
We report the eighth case of surgical removal of a papillary endocardial tumor. The surgical approach was aided by intraoperative two-dimensional echocardiography. The tumor was attached to the chorda tendinea of the mitral valve and was successfully removed via a left atrial approach.