Ockham's razor or Hickam's dictum: A right atrial mass following excision of left atrial myxoma

Yigal Abramowitz; Gidon Perlman; Eli Levy; Ronen Beeri; Tova Chajek-Shaul; David Leibowitz

doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen023

Ockham's razor or Hickam's dictum: A right atrial mass following excision of left atrial myxoma

Yigal Abramowitz^*, Gidon Perlman, Eli Levy, Ronen Beeri, Tova Chajek-Shaul, David Leibowitz

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Abstract

We report a case of a 54-year-old man presenting with a right atrial mass 7 months after undergoing a left atrial myxoma excision surgery. The differential diagnosis included recurrent myxoma or thrombus. The patient underwent repeat open sternotomy on cardiopulmonary bypass. Histopathological evaluation of the mass revealed an organizing thrombus. This report is, to our knowledge, the first that demonstrates right atrial thrombus shortly following excision of left atrial myxoma.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	415-416
Number of pages	2
Journal	European Journal of Echocardiography
Volume	9
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ejechocard/jen023
State	Published - May 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Atrial mass
Atrial myxoma
Excision
Thrombus

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