title: Partial resection of intravenous leiomyomatosis with cardiac extension.
abstract: Intravenous leiomyomatosis with cardiac extension is rare and may result in a fatal outcome. A 58-year-old woman with a surgical history of myoma uteri was admitted to our hospital for treatment of intravenous leiomyomatosis extending into the right atrium through the inferior vena cava. We partially resected the tumor inside the right atrium and the inferior vena cava via the right atrium using cardiopulmonary bypass. There is no progression of the residual tumor after 25 months of follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, 1-847 Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama, Saitama 330-8503, Japan. homareokamura@hotmail.co.jp
authors.forename: Homare
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okamura
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Naoyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adachi
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Adachi
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D018365:Neoplasm, Residual; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*