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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 19, 472-473, Copyright © 1975 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Calcified postoperative epicardial granuloma

BB Roe

A sterile calcified granuloma on the external surface of a right ventriculotomy in an 8-year-old boy was identified four years after closure of a ventricular septal defect; He had no symptoms, but a systolic ejection murmur was identified and disappeared after resection of the lesion. Sensitivity to silk suture material is suggested by the operative findings and a history of multiple silk suture sinuses developing in his uninfected original thoracotomy incision.

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