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. 1980 Jul;44(1):108–110. doi: 10.1136/hrt.44.1.108

An unusual case of large right atrial myxoma.

R F Willey, M B Matthews, P R Walbaum
PMCID: PMC482368  PMID: 7426153

Abstract

A case of right atrial myxoma is described. The patient had vague and variable symptoms and it was not until five years after first presentation that she had developed clinical and electrocardiographic evidence of right atrial hypertrophy, and angiocardiographic evidence of a fist-sized myxoma which was subsequently removed surgically.

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