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The malignant potentiality of left atrial myxoma.

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The clinical course of 3 men, ages 48 to 64 years, whose left atrial myxoma recurred or metastasized following resection is presented, and radical excision of the atrial septum with prosthetic replacement of the resulting defect is recommended to excise the tumor adequately and help eliminate foci of recurrence.
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This article is published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.The article was published on 1974-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 164 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Left Atrial Myxoma & Mitral valve.

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Primary cardiac tumors

TL;DR: Sixteen consecutive primary tumors of the heart have been surgically treated at Duke University Medical Center since 1966 with no perioperative deaths and no late recurrences.
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The significance of multiple, recurrent, and “complex” cardiac myxomas

TL;DR: Five patients had a "complex" of unusual findings including multiple pigmented skin lesions (lentiginosis), myxoid fibroadenomas of the breast, skin myxomas, and primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease (a cause of Cushing's syndrome).
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Primary cardiac neoplasms: early and late results of surgical treatment in 42 patients

TL;DR: Good early and late results were obtained in patients with benign lesions, as there was no known tumor recurrence even if resection was incomplete, but more effective adjuvant therapy will be necessary to improve long-term prognosis.
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Malignant tumours of the heart: a review of tumour type, diagnosis and therapy.

TL;DR: There are limited published data concerning cardiac neoplasms, and a high level of suspicion is required for early diagnosis, so a multi-treatment approach, including chemotherapy, radiation as well as evolving approaches such as gene therapy, might provide a better palliative and curative result.
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Cardiac tumors: clinical experience and surgical results in 74 patients.

TL;DR: A series of 75 cardiac tumors in 74 patients operated on at La Pitie Hospital between 1972 and 1989 survived operation, although 4 died in the early postoperative period; hence, prognosis remained unchanged.
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Clinical aspects of cardiac tumors

TL;DR: It has become increasingly apparent that it is necessary to alert the physician to the clinical manifestations of cardiac tumors, and it is certainly true that unless one thinks of the possibility of cardiac tumor, diagnosis will be made by the pathologist in the autopsy moon.
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Surgical management of tumors of the heart

Frank Gerbode, +2 more
- 01 Jan 1967 - 
TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the special aids that may be used in establishing the diagnosis, and to describe some of the surgical considerations in the management of tumors of the heart.
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Cerebral angiography in cardiac myxoma. Correlation of angiographic and histopathological findings

TL;DR: A report of 3 cases illustrates the cerebral angiographic findings which can be encountered in left atrial myxoma with cerebral embolization, and suggests this rare variety, neoplastic, should probably be added to the classical six varieties of aneurysm.
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Structural features of cardiac myxomas: Histology, histochemistry, and electron microscopy

TL;DR: It is concluded that cardiac myxomas arise from multipotential mesenchymal cells.
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