Giant left atrial myxoma associated with prolonged fever

Myxomas are the most common primary tumor affecting the heart. Infection of these tumors is rare and sometimes its clinical presentation is indistinguishable from an uninfected myxoma. The case of a 49-year-old female patient with a persistent fever of probable bacterial origin, which l...

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Main Authors: Humberto Luis Ramos González, Virginia Concepción González, Damián Perez Cabrera
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Editorial Ciencias Médicas 2012-10-01
Series:Acta Médica del Centro
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Online Access:http://www.revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/241