Prevention of Cerebral Embolism Progression by Emergency Surgery of the Left Atrial Myxoma

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Brain MR images before cardiac tumor extraction. (a) Multiple hyperintense areas in the left basal ganglia, corona radiata, and cortex of the temporal lobe were found by diffusion-weighted MRI. (b) MR angiography did not reveal angiostenosis.

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