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Left atrial sarcoma: resection and repair by cardiac autotransplant and in situ pericardial patch.

Doty DB, Doty JR, Reid BB, Anderson JL

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. donald.doty@ihc.com

This report demonstrates the method of resection of a left atrial tumor involving the right superior pulmonary vein. The unique features are use of adjacent pericardium as an in situ patch to reconstruct the left atrium when there is no margin of left atrium remaining on the pulmonary veins and cardiac autotransplantation.

Published 25 September 2006 in Ann Thorac Surg, 82(4): 1514-7.
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