title: [A case of left atrial myxoma in the elderly (77-year-old)].
abstract: We reported a case of a 77-year-old female, whose left atrial myxoma with a cyst, which had been identified by 2D echocardiography, was successfully resected. Apart from echocardiogram-revealed tumor hemorrhages in atrial myxomas, reports of echo-lucency within cardiac tumors are considerably rare. She was successfully operated on, and the section through the tumor specimen showed a cyst with a diameter of 10 mm, that corresponded to the echo-lucencies noted on the 2D echocardiogram. Even in an elderly patient, surgical treatment of left atrial myxoma offers excellent results with low morbidity and low mortality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai Hospital.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fuwa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saeki
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shinohara
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kataka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Naito
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hirose
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography