Contralateral recurrence of atrial myxoma - case report and review of the literature

Cardiac myxomas are the most frequent cardiac tumors, and they have the capability for recurrence years after resection, in the same or in different cardiac chambers. Hence, follow-up is important. Contralateral recurrences of myxoma are uncommon. We report a 7 year old boy who had a right atrial my...

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Autores principales: Erdöl, C, Öztürk, C, Öcal, A, Bozat, T, Koca, V, Özdemir, A
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22368600
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author Erdöl, C
Öztürk, C
Öcal, A
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Koca, V
Özdemir, A
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description Cardiac myxomas are the most frequent cardiac tumors, and they have the capability for recurrence years after resection, in the same or in different cardiac chambers. Hence, follow-up is important. Contralateral recurrences of myxoma are uncommon. We report a 7 year old boy who had a right atrial myxoma resected, and who had recurrent myxoma in the left atrium. The literature regarding such recurrence is reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-32325032012-02-22 Contralateral recurrence of atrial myxoma - case report and review of the literature Erdöl, C Öztürk, C Öcal, A Bozat, T Koca, V Özdemir, A Images Paediatr Cardiol Original Article Cardiac myxomas are the most frequent cardiac tumors, and they have the capability for recurrence years after resection, in the same or in different cardiac chambers. Hence, follow-up is important. Contralateral recurrences of myxoma are uncommon. We report a 7 year old boy who had a right atrial myxoma resected, and who had recurrent myxoma in the left atrium. The literature regarding such recurrence is reviewed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC3232503/ /pubmed/22368600 Text en Copyright: © Images in Paediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22368600
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