Atrial Myxoma with Glandular Differentiation – A Case Report

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Shaima A Alanqari Ahmed ElSayed Mahmoud Ashwaq F. Alfaqeer Fayaz aahmed

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Fayaz aahmed
Cardiothoracic surgery unit, King Fahd Hospital of University, AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia

A B S T R A C T

Benign cardiac myxoma with glandular differentiation is an extremely rare subtype of cardiac tumors which can mimic myxosarcoma grossly and histologically. Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare and account for less than 0.2% of all tumors. They are benign in 75% of cases and almost 50% of these are myxomas. The differentiation between benign and malignant cardiac tumors is challenging by echocardiography or histologically. We report a case of primary left atrial benign cardiac myxoma mimicking myxosarcoma grossly and histologically by its glandular differentiation. Only 39 such cases reported in the literature.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 08, Apr 2019
Accepted: Mon 29, Apr 2019
Published: Fri 31, May 2019

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© 2023 Fayaz aahmed. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.03.01