Asymptomatic schwannoma of the heart

We present a case of an asymptomatic right atrial mass detected on a screening ECHO. Pre-operative imaging and intraoperative frozen section suggested an atrial myxoma, but the extracardiac nature of the mass and its adherence to the right superior pulmonary vein and interatrial septum were inconsis...

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Autores principales: Early, Sarah A, McGuinness, Jonathan, Galvin, John, Kennedy, Maria, Hurley, John
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1766349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17201932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-2-1
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author Early, Sarah A
McGuinness, Jonathan
Galvin, John
Kennedy, Maria
Hurley, John
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McGuinness, Jonathan
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description We present a case of an asymptomatic right atrial mass detected on a screening ECHO. Pre-operative imaging and intraoperative frozen section suggested an atrial myxoma, but the extracardiac nature of the mass and its adherence to the right superior pulmonary vein and interatrial septum were inconsistent with this. Detailed histological assessment confirmed the diagnosis of atrial schwannoma. Limited case reports have shown complete resection is curative.
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spelling pubmed-17663492007-01-11 Asymptomatic schwannoma of the heart Early, Sarah A McGuinness, Jonathan Galvin, John Kennedy, Maria Hurley, John J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report We present a case of an asymptomatic right atrial mass detected on a screening ECHO. Pre-operative imaging and intraoperative frozen section suggested an atrial myxoma, but the extracardiac nature of the mass and its adherence to the right superior pulmonary vein and interatrial septum were inconsistent with this. Detailed histological assessment confirmed the diagnosis of atrial schwannoma. Limited case reports have shown complete resection is curative. BioMed Central 2007-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC1766349/ /pubmed/17201932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-2-1 Text en Copyright © 2007 Early et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Early, Sarah A
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Hurley, John
Asymptomatic schwannoma of the heart
title Asymptomatic schwannoma of the heart
title_full Asymptomatic schwannoma of the heart
title_fullStr Asymptomatic schwannoma of the heart
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title_short Asymptomatic schwannoma of the heart
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1766349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17201932
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