Intravenous leiomyoma with intracardiac extension causing sudden death.
A 43-year-old woman with a three-year history of syncope is described. No cause for her symptoms was discovered until a postmortem examination revealed an intravenous leiomyoma within the left renal vein that extended to the right ventricle of the heart. A review of the literature is presented.
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Department of Pathology, St John Hospital, Detroit, MI.
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D000328:Adult; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D012082:Renal Veins / Q000473:pathology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000473:pathology