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To the Editor: The correspondence regarding benign cardiac myxoma, malignant myxoma, and cardiac sarcoma (May 23 issue)^1,2,3 clouds, rather than clarifies, a subject that is generally misunderstood by clinicians and pathologists. Figure 1 of the case reported by Kairemo et al.¹ is clearly that of a cardiac sarcoma, but the report may unwittingly further the notion that malignant myxomas exist. Most, if not all, reported "malignant myxomas" are simply cardiac sarcomas that have been misdiagnosed, including those in reports cited in the correspondence.^4,5,6 The figure provided in the report by Hannah et al.⁴ shows a sarcoma; Rankin and DeSousa⁵ do . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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