title: Bi-auricular myxoma associated with atrioventricular dissociation in an 18-year-old boy: a case report.
abstract: Primary cardiac tumours are rarely found and have an incidence of 0.3% in all open-heart surgeries. Among those, approximately 70% are myxomas, most of them in the left atrium. The reported incidence of cardiac tumours in autopsy series is 0.001-0.28%. Right atrial myxomas are uncommon, but when present they often originate from the interatrial septum, and conduction disturbances are rarely noted as an accompanying feature in this condition. We report the case of an 18-year-old boy with a myxoma in both left and right atrium associated with atrioventricular dissociation.
authors: Cardiac Centre, St Elizabeth Catholic General Hospital, PO Box 8 Kumbo, Cameroon. tantchouj@yahoo.fr
authors: Jacques C
authors: JC
authors: Tantchou Tchoumi
authors: Alessandro
authors: A
authors: Giamberti
authors: Silvia
authors: S
authors: Cirri
authors: Gianfranco
authors: G
authors: Butera
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D054087:Atrial Septum / Q000503:physiopathology; D054537:Atrioventricular Block / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*