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Fine‐needle aspiration of a primary right atrial myxoma
Author(s) -
Layfield Lester J.,
Dodd Leslie G.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
diagnostic cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1097-0339
pISSN - 8755-1039
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0339(199603)14:2<162::aid-dc11>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - medicine , myxoma , primary (astronomy) , atrial myxoma , physics , astronomy
Cardiac myxomas are rare neoplasms usually diagnosed by echocardiography. Preoperative tissue diagnosis is usually not obtained because of the location of these neoplasms. Their cytologic appearance has only been reported from touch imprints of operative specimens or aspirates of metastatic deposits. We report the cytologic appearance of a right atrial myxoma characterized by bland spindle cells and fragments of myxoid debris. Diagn Cytopathol 1996;14:162–164. © 1996 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.