title: A rare intracardiac mass: cardiac paraganglioma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Gazi University Medical Faculty, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Ankara, Turkey. yimren@gazi.edu.tr
authors.forename: Yildirim
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Imren
authors.forename: Irfan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tasoglu
authors.forename: Ariel A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Benson
authors.forename: Volkan
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sinci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*