A potential concomitance of papillary fibroelastoma in the case with cardiac myxoma.

Abstract

An 84-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with a suspected cardiac tumor detected by transthoracic echocardiography performed as a preoperative examination of gastric cancer. In addition to a tumor in the left atrium, we found on cardiac ultrasound a 15-mm mobile tumor that adhered to the aortic valve. Gross findings and histological examination confirmed that the tumor in the left atrium was a cardiac myxoma, and that the tumor adhered to the aortic valve was a papillary fibroelastoma. We experienced a rare case where preoperative examination before gastrectomy accidentally revealed concomitant cardiac tumors.

• Authors: Tomohiro Takano, Takashi Kakuta, Shoichi Takahashi
• Journal: General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg) Vol. 65 Issue 8 Pg. 474-477 (Aug 2017) ISSN: 1863-6713 [Electronic] Japan
• PMID: 27614691 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Aged, 80 and over
• Cardiac Surgical Procedures
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Echocardiography
• Female
• Fibroma (diagnosis, surgery)
• Heart Atria (diagnostic imaging)
• Heart Neoplasms (diagnosis, surgery)
• Humans
• Myxoma (diagnosis, surgery)
• Neoplasms, Multiple Primary