Key result
Surgical resection confirms rare multiple primary cardiac myxomas in a patient without Carney complex.
Population
A 78-year-old woman with a past history of breast cancer and multiple cardiac tumors who did not meet the…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to rare non-Carney multiple myxomas; leaves open etiology and surveillance needs.
Case Report (n=1)
No
This case demonstrates that multiple primary cardiac myxomas can rarely occur in patients who do not have the Carney complex.
Kataoka et al. (2016) conducted a case report in Multiple primary cardiac myxomas without Carney complex (n=1). Surgical resection was evaluated on Pathological diagnosis of resected tumors. Surgical resection of four mobile cardiac tumors in a 78-year-old woman without Carney complex confirmed the rare diagnosis of multiple primary cardiac myxomas.
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