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(Circulation. 1963;27:219.)
© 1963 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Surgical Management of Echinococcal Cysts of the Heart and Pericardium

ALFRED HEILBRUNN M.D.¹; C. FREDERICK KITTLE M.D.¹; MARVIN DUNN M.D.¹

¹ From the Departments of Surgery and Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas.

Surgical treatment of a 27-year-old man with an echinococcal cyst of the heart is reported, illustrating some difficulties and problems manifested by this lesion.

Twenty-seven other patients operated upon for cardiac hydatid disease are reviewed in tabular form.

Symptomatology, diagnosis, and management of this rare cardiac lesion are reviewed.

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