The authors present a case of a thirty-nine-year-old white man in good health who developed episodes of ventricular tachycardia as a first manifestation of a right ventricular myxoma, which was diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardio gram and then resected with no complications and total disappearance of the cardiac arrhythmia.
After reviewing the literature they consider the present case as a rare manifesta tion of an infrequent location of an uncommon disease.
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