title: Biatrial myxomas with Carney complex.
abstract: A 30-year-old man presented with chest pain and was diagnosed with biatrial myxomas and pulmonary embolism. He underwent resection of the biatrial myxomas and tumor embolectomy from the pulmonary artery. The histological diagnosis was multiple cardiac myxomas. Further examination showed that this patient also had spotty pigmentations, cutaneous myxomas, and acromegaly. He was diagnosed with Carney complex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital, 83 Kasuga-cho Matsuyama-si Ehime 790-0024, Japan.
authors.forename: Yukiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tominaga
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishitoya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D056733:Carney Complex / Q000175:diagnosis; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis