Double Right Atrial Blood Cysts

Hiroyuki Otsuka; Kouichi Arinaga; Toshifumi Fukuda; Toru Takaseya; Takahiro Shojima; Kazuyoshi Takagi; Kumiko Wada; Satoru Tobinaga; Koji Akasu; Hiroyuki Tanaka

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.10.021

Double Right Atrial Blood Cysts

Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 May;101(5):e147-9. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.10.021.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan.

PMID: 27106462
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.10.021

Abstract

Blood cysts are exceedingly rare benign cardiac tumors, generally involving the cardiac valves. They are found mainly in the first month of life and in children and are very uncommon in adults. We present a rare case of double right atrium blood cysts, incidentally detected by transthoracic echocardiography in an 85-year old patient.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged, 80 and over
Echocardiography / methods*
Female
Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Neoplasms / pathology
Humans