Key result
Two patients with cardiac myxoma presented with varied neurological manifestations and pathological findings, illustrating the diagnostic challenges of metastatic lesions.
Why the study?
Diagnosing rare neurological lesions such as parenchymal brain metastasis, intracranial aneurysms, or intracerebral hemorrhage in previously undiagnosed atrial myxoma may be challenging for pathologists.
Case Report (n=2)
Pathological evaluation can identify rare neurological complications of atrial myxoma, such as parenchymal brain metastasis and aneurysms.
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May prompt consideration of rare myxoma metastasis in atypical cases; hypothesis-generating and requires larger studies before broader application.
Atrial myxomas are the most common primary benign cardiac tumors. The embolization of tumor particles is not infrequent, and in nearly half of them, the cerebral arteries are affected, usually leading to embolic ischemic stroke. Formation of intracranial aneurysms, development of parenchymal brain metastasis, and intracerebral hemorrhage due to ruptured aneurysms are rarer. Diagnosis of such lesions in a previously undiagnosed case of myxoma may be challenging for a pathologist. Herein, we present two patients of cardiac myxoma with varied neurological manifestations and their pathological findings.
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Rajeshwari et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Cardiac myxoma (n=2). Cardiac myxoma was evaluated. Two patients with cardiac myxoma presented with varied neurological manifestations and pathological findings, illustrating the diagnostic challenges of metastatic lesions.
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