Cerebral Metastases in Patients with Left Atrial Myxoma

David Rose; Anselmo Papa; Silverio Tomao; Ernesto Greco; Joseph Zacharias

doi:10.1111/jocs.12727

Cerebral Metastases in Patients with Left Atrial Myxoma

J Card Surg. 2016 May;31(5):289-93. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12727. Epub 2016 Mar 20.

Authors

David Rose¹, Anselmo Papa², Silverio Tomao², Ernesto Greco³, Joseph Zacharias¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lancashire Cardiac Center, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Lancashire, England.
² Oncology Unit-Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, "Sapienza" University of Rome, ICOT, Latina, Italy.
³ Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Nephrological, Anesthesiological, and Geriatric Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I-Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

PMID: 26996368
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.12727

Abstract

We describe two cases of cardiac myxomas with cerebral metastases and review the literature on this subject. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12727 (J Card Surg 2016;31:289-293).

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Brain Neoplasms* / diagnosis
Brain Neoplasms* / epidemiology
Brain Neoplasms* / secondary
Global Health
Heart Atria*
Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Heart Neoplasms / epidemiology
Humans
Incidence
Myxoma / diagnosis*
Myxoma / epidemiology
Neoplasm Metastasis
Survival Rate / trends