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Recurrent left atrial myxoma
A M Alkhulaifi1, S Horner, W B Pugsley
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Middlesex Hospital, London, UK.
Cardiovascular Surgery (London, England)
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
Based on statistics from the UK, the incidence of myxoma is about 1:1,000,000/year. Three recent cases of recurrent myxoma are reported, one where excision was probably incomplete, one where tumour implantation may have occurred and one where a mesenchymal sarcoma was misinterpreted histologically. The relative importance of these three factors in recurrence of cardiac tumours after surgical excision is discussed.