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Do you pursue a cardiac evaluation in all patients with an excised cutaneous myxoma?

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Dermatology · UCSF

I'm a dermatopathologist, not a clinician, but would note the following data points:

  • Many things are called myxomas. Those associated with Carney complex, in which atrial myxomas also occur, are a specific variant, superficial angiomyxomas. They usually have inactivation of protein kinase regulator...

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