What question did this study set out to answer?

To describe a rare case of bi-atrial cardiac myxoma exhibiting marked glandular differentiation and evaluate the correlation between radiologic and histopathologic findings.

April 16, 2018European Heart Journal - Case ReportsOpen Access

Bi-atrial cardiac myxoma with glandular differentiation: a case report with detailed radiologic-pathologic correlation

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A 60-year-old man presenting with progressive shortness of breath on exertion, found to have a large…

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Authors

NFNir FlintTel Aviv University RSRobert J. SiegelGeneral Cardiology SBSerguei BannykhCedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Implication

Glandular myxoma can mimic metastatic adenocarcinoma; leaves open the need for refined diagnostic criteria in atypical cardiac tumors.

Key Points

To describe a rare case of bi-atrial cardiac myxoma exhibiting marked glandular differentiation and evaluate the correlation between radiologic and histopathologic findings.
Clinical, echocardiographic, and surgical evaluation of a 60-year-old male presenting with exertional dyspnea (N=1).
Surgical excision of the atrial mass followed by histopathological examination using special diagnostic stains.
Echocardiography revealed a large, heterogeneous, cystic mass involving both the left and right atria.
Histopathologic analysis confirmed cardiac myxoma with extensive glandular differentiation, a benign feature that closely mimics metastatic adenocarcinoma.

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Population

A 60-year-old man presenting with progressive shortness of breath on exertion, found to have a large heterogeneous, cystic left and right atrial mass.

Intervention

Surgical excision and histopathological analysis

Outcome

Histopathological diagnosis

Echocardiography can provide important diagnostic clues for rare morphological variations of cardiac tumors, such as myxomas with glandular differentiation.

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Flint et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7121018031ec7bb1dcc744 https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/yty045

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