title: Mucin-producing adenocarcinoma arising in an atrial myxoma.
abstract: We describe the unique autopsy findings of a patient who died of a metastasizing giant right atrial adenocarcinoma containing few areas of typical myxoma. That no mucin-producing extracardiac tumor was detected pointed to the atrial adenocarcinoma as being the primary. We hypothesize that the adenocarcinoma may have developed from coexistent bland glandular structures within the myxoma.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pathology, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Switzerland. martin.berger@insel.ch
authors.forename: Martin D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: Jakob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Peter E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Ballmer
authors.forename: Boris P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Eckhardt
authors.forename: Corina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dommann-Scherrer
mesh_terms: D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism; D001344:Autopsy; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009077:Mucins / Q000378:metabolism; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D009077:Mucins