Kunioka S, Fujita K, Iwasa S, Murakami H, Kamiya H, Yamazaki K, Tsukui H. A rare form of cardiac myxoma: interatrial septum tumor.
J Surg Case Rep 2020;
2020:rjaa333. [PMID:
32968478 PMCID:
PMC7497063 DOI:
10.1093/jscr/rjaa333]
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Abstract
A myxoma is one of the most common tumors in cardiac surgery, with most of them originating from the left or right atrial walls and causing embolic complications. An 84-year-old woman was referred to our institution after echocardiography showed an interatrial septum tumor that was presumed to be a thrombus; however, postoperative pathological examination revealed it to be a cardiac myxoma. This atypical myxoma was covered with a solid capsule containing connective tissue and substantial calcifications, which had made it difficult to establish a diagnosis of myxoma.
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