title: Bone metastasis of glandular cardiac myxoma mimicking a metastatic carcinoma.
abstract: Skeletal metastasis from a cardiac myxoma is rare. We describe an extremely unusual case of a cardiac myxoma metastasing to the femur in a 46-year-old female presenting with pain in the right hip. Radiographs showed an expansile lytic lesion with pathological fracture involving the neck and proximal shaft of the right femur. Histology revealed features of cardiac myxoma with heterologous glandular elements, which was initially mistaken for a metastatic mucin-secreting adenocarcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, E. Borges Road, Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India. drsguppin@yahoo.co.in
authors.forename: Shantveer G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Uppin
authors.forename: Nirmala
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jambhekar
authors.forename: Ajay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puri
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Manish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: Darshana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sanghvi
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography