Extremely rare case of primary cardiac chondroma in a patient presenting with acute pulmonary edema.
Primary tumors of the heart are rare entities, substantially less frequent than cardiac metastases. Primary chondroma is an exceptionally rare cardiac tumor. We describe the case of a patient presenting with acute pulmonary edema with the incidental echocardiographic finding of a large left atrial tumor that was histopathologically diagnosed as primary cardiac chondroma.
Koskinas
Konstantinos C
KC
1st Cardiology Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Greece. kkoskinas@partners.org
Chatzizisis
Yiannis S
YS
Kamperidis
Vasileios
V
Anastasiadis
Kyriakos
K
Zioga
Christina
C
Hadjimiltiades
Stavros
S
Giannoglou
George D
GD
D000208:Acute Disease; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002812:Chondroma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography