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Ann Thorac Surg 1975;19:472-473
© 1975 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Calcified Postoperative Epicardial Granuloma

From the Department of Surgery, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, Calif. 94143.

Accepted for publication October 4, 1974.

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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