Multiple recurrence of a "sporadic" (non-familial) cardiac myxoma

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1996;10(10):919-21. doi: 10.1016/s1010-7940(96)80323-x.

Abstract

This report describes a myxoma with three recurrences, two of them synchronous neoplasms in both atrial chambers, without evidence of familial history or features of the "myxoma complex" (lentiginosis, other non-cardiac myxomas and endocrine overactivity). The patient underwent complete resection of the myxoma with their surrounding tissue 3 times between 1983 and 1992. At the time of writing no other myxoma has been diagnosed in this patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Echocardiography
  • Heart Atria / pathology
  • Heart Atria / surgery
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardium / pathology
  • Myxoma / pathology
  • Myxoma / surgery*
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / pathology
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / surgery*
  • Reoperation