title: Metastatic cardiac myxoma.
abstract: A 22-year-old woman who had a history of three cardiac operations and a bilateral femoral embolectomy for recurrent cardiac myxoma and myxoma embolism, respectively, was accepted to our clinic with multiple immobile peripheral masses. One of them was compressing the left common femoral artery. This mass was extirpated. Pathology examination revealed myxoma. Chemotherapy was given to the patient and regression of the masses was observed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Carrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, University of Istanbul, Turkey. kamil@istanbul.edu.tr
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaynak
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Beşirli
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Arslan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozgüroğlu
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Oz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005267:Femoral Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D020428:Femoral Neuropathy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery