A potential concomitance of papillary fibroelastoma in the case with cardiac myxoma.
An 84-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with a suspected cardiac tumor detected by transthoracic echocardiography performed as a preoperative examination of gastric cancer. In addition to a tumor in the left atrium, we found on cardiac ultrasound a 15-mm mobile tumor that adhered to the aortic valve. Gross findings and histological examination confirmed that the tumor in the left atrium was a cardiac myxoma, and that the tumor adhered to the aortic valve was a papillary fibroelastoma. We experienced a rare case where preoperative examination before gastrectomy accidentally revealed concomitant cardiac tumors.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hoshi General Hospital, 159-1 Mukaigawara, Koriyama, Fukushima, 963-8501, Japan. tkn-tomo@fmu.ac.jp.
Tomohiro
T
Takano
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hoshi General Hospital, 159-1 Mukaigawara, Koriyama, Fukushima, 963-8501, Japan.
Takashi
T
Kakuta
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hoshi General Hospital, 159-1 Mukaigawara, Koriyama, Fukushima, 963-8501, Japan.
Shoichi
S
Takahashi
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary
Cardiac myxoma; Papillary fibroelastoma; Pluripotent mesenchymal tumor