European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 10, 919-921, Copyright © 1996 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
Multiple recurrence of a "sporadic" (non-familial) cardiac myxoma
A Aroca, JM Mesa, F Dominguez, JM Oliver, U Ramirez and JE Centeno
Cardiac Surgery Unit, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
This report describes a myxoma with three recurrences, two of them
synchronous neoplasms in both atrial chambers, without evidence of familial
history or features of the "myxoma complex" (lentiginosis, other
non-cardiac myxomas and endocrine overactivity). The patient underwent
complete resection of the myxoma with their surrounding tissue 3 times
between 1983 and 1992. At the time of writing no other myxoma has been
diagnosed in this patient.