Features of clinical course, diagnostics and surgical treatment of a giant left atrial myxoma with subsequent mitral valve insufficiency

R.M. Vitovskyi, V.P. Zakharova, I.V. Martyshchenko, M.O. Tregubova, V.V. Isaenko, A.V. Kupchinsky

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