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Carney's syndrome: complex myxomas. Report of four cases and review of the literature.
Cardiovascular surgery (London, England) - 1 Jun 2002
Edwards A, Bermudez C, Piwonka G, Berr M L, Zamorano J, Larrain E, Franck R, Gonzalez M, Alvarez E, Maiers E
Abstract excerpt
Cardiac myxomas are rare tumors. They usually appear as a sporadic isolated condition in the left atrium of middle-aged women with no other coincidental pathology. Carney and others have described in young people a special complex group of cardiac myxomas associated to a distinctive complex pathology, giving identity to the "Syndrome Myxoma" or "Carney's Syndrome". Four additional cases of this syndrome, treated...
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