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Extensive surgery for left atrial leiomyosarcoma diagnosed by echocardiography. A case report
B Schmekel1, J Landelius, T Aberg
1Department of Clinical Physiology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
A case of malignant leiomyosarcoma presenting as a left atrial cardiac tumor is described and its echocardiographic features are discussed. Tumor masses invading the atrial walls were extensively resected and the atrial wall was reconstructed with two patches of bovine pericardium.