Brain metastasis of cardiac myxoma: case report and review of the literature.
Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign heart tumor. Cardiac myxoma can be a sporadic lesion (93% of cases) and usually occurs in women over 30 years. Complete surgical removal of the myxoma and its cardiac attachment is usually curative. The frequency of recurrences in cardiac myxomas varies between 3% for sporadic cases and 22% for cases of Carney complex. Recurrence has been related to incomplete excision, multifocality, and embolism of tumor fragments. We report a case with multiple brain metastases presumably due to tumor embolization from previously operated cardiac myxoma.
Altundag
Muzaffer B
MB
Department of Radiation Oncology, Ankara Oncology Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Ertas
Gulcin
G
Ucer
Ali R
AR
Durmus
Sema
S
Abanuz
Hayati
H
Calikoğlu
Tamer
T
Ozbagi
Kenan
K
Demirkasimoglu
Atila
A
Kaya
Bektas
B
Bakkal
Bekir H
BH
Altundag
Kadri
K
D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009232:Myxoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013687:Telencephalon / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome