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KMID : 0364019920250111269
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Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
1992 Volume.25 No. 11 p.1269 ~ p.1272
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A Case of Fibromyxosarcoma in the Left Atrium
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김상익
김성철/박현/서연림/오상준/김창호
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Abstract
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Benign cardiac tumors are almost uniformly curable, but malignant cardiac tumors are almost always fetal despite of modern techniques of diagnosis and surgical treatment. Resection of malignant tumors of heart s occasionally feasible and can
result
in
prolonged survival, although cure is unlikely.
Survival may be enhanced by postoperative irradiation in selected patients, but chemotherapy does not appear to be beneficial. Fibromyxosarcoma of the left atrium is a primary malignant tumor of the heart which is extremely rare and has a poor
prognosis
and rapid recurrence. It is important to differentiate the uniformly fatal fibromyxosarcoma from the more common benign atrial myxoma.
A 19-year-old woman with a fibromyxosarcoma of the left atrium which was extirpated surgically, and postoperative irradiation was given(totally 4500 rads). She is still alive 9 months postoperatively without recurrence.
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