title: Atrial myxoma: tumour or trauma?
abstract: A mass lesion developed in the right atrium at the site of a trans-septal puncture after percutaneous balloon dilatation of the mitral valve in a man aged 74. The lesion had the pathological appearance of an atrial myxoma and seemed to have developed after trauma to the intra-atrial septum. This case suggests that at least some atrial myxomas are reactive rather than neoplastic in origin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nolan
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Carder
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bloomfield
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000293:injuries; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology