Key result
Surgical resection identifies rare cardiac myxoma with glandular elements in a young patient.
Why the study?
Cardiac myxoma with glandular elements is an extremely rare entity with unknown pathogenesis that requires differentiation from metastatic adenocarcinoma.
Case Report (n=1)
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This case report highlights a rare presentation of cardiac myxoma with glandular elements, emphasizing the importance of differentiating it from metastatic adenocarcinoma.
Glandular cardiac myxoma should remain in the differential of left atrial masses; extends the histopathologic spectrum but leaves open natural history and follow-up data.
Cardiac myxoma with glandular elements is extremely rare cardiac myxomas that show glandular differentiation, the pathogenesis of which is unknown. The present case study reports a case of glandular cardiac myxoma. A 21-years-old female presented with left atrial mass which was surgically resected and sent for histopathological examination. Microscopically, there were well formed mucinous glands in a background of cardiac myxoma and hence cardiac myxoma with glandular elements was confirmed. Though rare, it should always be differentiated from metastatic adenocarcinoma.
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K.C. et al. (2017) conducted a case report in Cardiac myxoma with glandular elements (n=1). Surgical resection was evaluated on Histopathological confirmation of cardiac myxoma with glandular elements. Surgical resection and histopathological examination of a left atrial mass in a 21-year-old female confirmed the rare diagnosis of cardiac myxoma with glandular elements.
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