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Multiple recurrence of a "sporadic" (non-familial) cardiac myxoma
A Aroca1, J M Mesa, F Dominguez
1Cardiac Surgery Unit, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
This report describes a myxoma with three recurrences, two of them synchronous neoplasms in both atrial chambers, without evidence of familial history or features of the "myxoma complex" (lentiginosis, other non-cardiac myxomas and endocrine overactivity). The patient underwent complete resection of the myxoma with their surrounding tissue 3 times between 1983 and 1992. At the time of writing no other myxoma has been diagnosed in this patient.