title: Brain metastasis of cardiac myxoma: case report and review of the literature.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Ankara Oncology Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Muzaffer B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Altundag
authors.forename: Gulcin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ertas
authors.forename: Ali R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Ucer
authors.forename: Sema
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Durmus
authors.forename: Hayati
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abanuz
authors.forename: Tamer
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Calikoğlu
authors.forename: Kenan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ozbagi
authors.forename: Atila
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demirkasimoglu
authors.forename: Bektas
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kaya
authors.forename: Bekir H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Bakkal
authors.forename: Kadri
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Altundag
mesh_terms: 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