Incidental finding of a giant asymptomatic right atrial tumor.
Primary cardiac tumors are very rare, atrial myxoma being the most common benign tumor of the heart. They may present with a great variety of incidental asymptomatic masses to severe life-threatening cardiovascular complications necessitating emergency surgery. Here we report the diagnostic evaluation and successful surgical resection of such a giant cardiac tumor which was found on a routine medical check-up in a 62-year-old patient. Histology confirmed diagnosis of unusually huge myxoma. This article demonstrates it's necessary to include cardiac tumors in the differential diagnosis of subtle and non-specific cardiothoracic symptoms.
['Strecker|Thomas|T|', 'Agaimy|Abbas|A|', 'Zelzer|Peter|P|', 'Weyand|Michael|M|', 'Wachter|David Lukas|DL|']
D004452:Echocardiography D005260:Female D006325:Heart Atria D006338:Heart Neoplasms D006801:Humans D033162:Incidental Findings D008875:Middle Aged D009232:Myxoma
Cardiac tumors myxoma surgery echocardiography pathology