Case Report (n=1)
Lymphoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of pedunculated cardiac tumors, especially in young individuals, to ensure appropriate oncologic management.
May support including lymphoma in differential for pediatric cardiac tumors; leaves open optimal management strategies.
A huge intracavitary cardiac tumor causing heart failure in a 13-year-old girl was detected by two-dimensional echocardiography and was successfully resected to relieve her life-threatening symptoms. On pathologic examination, the tumor was found to be a nonconvoluted lymphoblastic lymphoma of B-cell lineage rather than a myxoma. This case is reported because of its rarity and unusual mode of growth and presentation, and illustrates that lymphoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of pedunculated cardiac tumors, especially in young individuals. The precise cytologic diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is important because chemotherapy and radiotherapy may achieve palliation or control of the disease.
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Kuo et al. (1987) conducted a case report in Intracavitary cardiac tumor causing heart failure (n=1). Surgical resection was evaluated on Symptom relief and pathologic diagnosis.
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