Cardiac myxoma with Gamna-Gandy bodies: case report with MR imaging.
We describe a patient with a left atrial tumor that showed very unusual magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features. Postsurgical histologic examination showed characteristics of myxoma, and Gamna-Gandy bodies were found in the tumor. We believe that the unusual MR appearance was caused by the hemosiderin in the Gamna-Gandy bodies.
Watanabe
M
M
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Takazawa
K
K
Wada
A
A
Hirano
A
A
Yamaguchi
H
H
Hosoda
Y
Y
Katayama
H
H
D000368:Aged; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000473:pathology; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D015743:Giant Cells, Foreign-Body / Q000473:pathology; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000473:pathology; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000473:pathology; D006485:Hemosiderin; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009232:Myxoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure
D006485:Hemosiderin