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====Micro====
====Micro====
The sections show paucicellular myxoid material containing spindled-to-epithelioid cells with eosinophilic myxoid cytoplasm and bland nuclei (myxoma cells). Hemosiderin-laden macrophages, calcified elastic fibres and scattered inflammatory cells are also present. There is no nuclear atypia. Mitotic activity is not evident.
The sections show paucicellular myxoid material containing spindled-to-epithelioid cells with eosinophilic myxoid cytoplasm and bland nuclei (myxoma cells). Hemosiderin-laden macrophages, calcified elastic fibres and scattered inflammatory cells are also present. There is no nuclear atypia. Mitotic activity is not evident.
Several sections show fresh hemorrhage.  The edge has a fibrotic rim and appears to be covered by endothelium.
No cardiac muscle is identified.


==Papillary fibroelastoma==
==Papillary fibroelastoma==
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