A colossal atrial myxoma

Atrial myxomas are the most common benign primary tumor of the heart. These cardiac growths can masquerade as mitral stenosis and infective endocarditis. A 35-year-old man presented with complaints of nonspecific symptoms. Echocardiogram revealed a large atrial myxoma occupying the left atrium. Exci...

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Autores principales: Rohani, Atoosheh, Akbari, Vahid
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21187871
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-3583.70923
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description Atrial myxomas are the most common benign primary tumor of the heart. These cardiac growths can masquerade as mitral stenosis and infective endocarditis. A 35-year-old man presented with complaints of nonspecific symptoms. Echocardiogram revealed a large atrial myxoma occupying the left atrium. Excision revealed a 14 × 8 × 6 cm3 tumor attached to a 4 × 3 × 2 cm3 stalk of septal tissue. We describe a giant left atrial myxoma. We were not able to find another myxoma as big as this one in the literature, so we are reporting it.
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spelling pubmed-29822052010-12-23 A colossal atrial myxoma Rohani, Atoosheh Akbari, Vahid J Cardiovasc Dis Res Case Report Atrial myxomas are the most common benign primary tumor of the heart. These cardiac growths can masquerade as mitral stenosis and infective endocarditis. A 35-year-old man presented with complaints of nonspecific symptoms. Echocardiogram revealed a large atrial myxoma occupying the left atrium. Excision revealed a 14 × 8 × 6 cm3 tumor attached to a 4 × 3 × 2 cm3 stalk of septal tissue. We describe a giant left atrial myxoma. We were not able to find another myxoma as big as this one in the literature, so we are reporting it. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2982205/ /pubmed/21187871 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-3583.70923 Text en © Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A colossal atrial myxoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21187871
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-3583.70923
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