A rare intracardiac mass: cardiac paraganglioma.
It is very rare for heart tissue to give rise to a primary paraganglioma. Here, we report the observation of such a tumour in a 34-year-old woman who presented with symptoms of pulmonary venous congestion. The findings from echocardiography were consistent with the diagnosis of a myxoma that was partially occluding the left atrium. Surgery was performed in which a large (6 cm x 5 cm x 3 cm), non-lobulated solid tumour was resected from the posterior wall of the atrium. Upon histologic evaluation, this was determined to be a cardiac paraganglioma.
Imren
Yildirim
Y
Gazi University Medical Faculty, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Ankara, Turkey. yimren@gazi.edu.tr
Tasoglu
Irfan
I
Benson
Ariel A
AA
Sinci
Volkan
V
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*