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Budd Chiari syndrome from myosarcoma of right atrium
Author(s) -
Theodossi A.,
AlAshbal A. A.,
Dische F. E.,
Pryor J. S.,
Williams Roger
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
the journal of pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.964
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1096-9896
pISSN - 0022-3417
DOI - 10.1002/path.1711280307
Subject(s) - medicine , university hospital , general hospital , unit (ring theory) , general surgery , surgery , psychology , mathematics education
A 50-year-old man presented with abdominal pain followed by marked liver and renal dysfunction. Although liver scan appearances were not diagnostic, at laparotomy a tense, enlarged liver was found with thrombosis of the inferior vena cava. Despite full supportive measures the patient died within a month of laparotomy. Subsequent necropsy confirmed the diagnosis of Budd Chiari syndrome and revealed the primary cause to be a myosarcoma of the right atrium, an occurrence hitherto unreported.