Suspicious Right Heart Mass: A Rare Case of Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Tricuspid Valve

Benign metastasizing leiomyoma is a rare condition usually affecting women of reproductive age with a history of uterine leiomyoma and characterized by soft tissue masses in various extrauterine sites. We report a case of a 46-year-old woman with previously resected uterine leiomyoma with subsequent...

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Autores principales: Gad, Mohamed M., Găman, Mihnea-Alexandru, Bazarbashi, Najdat, Friedman, Kenneth A., Gupta, Amit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8301720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.12.004
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Sumario:Benign metastasizing leiomyoma is a rare condition usually affecting women of reproductive age with a history of uterine leiomyoma and characterized by soft tissue masses in various extrauterine sites. We report a case of a 46-year-old woman with previously resected uterine leiomyoma with subsequent pulmonary and tricuspid valve lesions. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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