Cardiac tumors are unusual and cardiac malignancy, usually sarcoma, is a very small subset of these. The literature on cardiac sarcomas of the left heart often exhibited multiple operations for local recurrence, which we believed was related to inadequate resection, likely exacerbated by poor anatomic exposure of the posterior heart for complex resection and reconstruction. Since November 1998, we have approached large complex sarcoma of the left atrium or left ventricle using the technique…
Em Zon