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Mitral valve myxoma
D P Murphy1, D B Glazier, T J Krause
1Department of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|November 14, 1997
Abstract:
Cardiac myxomas arising from the mitral valve are extremely rare. We describe the case of an asymptomatic 49-year-old woman who was found to have a 3.6 x 4.0-cm myxoma originating from the atrial side of the anterior mitral leaflet. The lesion was successfully treated by surgical excision and mitral valve replacement. A review of the literature regarding this rare lesion is presented.