Biatrial Recurrence of Two Independently Growing Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient with Multiple Tumor Disease

Abstract

We report the case of a 56-year-old female patient with biatrial recurrence of cardiac myxoma and extensive comorbidities. In the literature, only few cases of biatrial myxoma can be found and they generally describe a single tumor reaching both atria. We found two independently growing cardiac myxomas of both atria.

Keywords

cardiac tumor - cardiac myxoma

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