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Giant left atrial myxoma causing acute ischemic stroke in a child

Ischemic stroke is uncommon in pediatric populations and is sometimes caused by cardiac myxoma. In such cases, neurological deficits initially present in ischemic stroke due to emboli or thrombi of the myxoma. Echocardiography is helpful to diagnose myxoma in a timely manner and allows urgent surgic...

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Autores principales: Ise, Hayato, Ishikawa, Natsuya, Nakanishi, Sentaro, Kamiya, Hiroyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29330629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-017-0411-2