title: A primary intracavitary right atrial neurilemoma.
abstract: Primary cardiac neurilemoma, a benign tumor, is extremely uncommon. To our knowledge only eight cases have been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72-year-old man who presented with complaints of progressive shortness of breath and chest pain, seven years after a right nephrectomy for renal adenocarcinoma. An intra-right atrial tumor was surgically removed; the lesion was found to be a neurilemoma of the right atrium. This case report describes the surgical removal and rarity of neurilemomas, their predisposition to be right-sided in the heart and their coincidental association with other types of cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Biomedical Technologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bizzarri
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mondillo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tanganelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lisi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guerrini
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ammaturo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barbati
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maccherini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Toscano
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery