
Atrial Myxoma with Glandular Differentiation – A Case Report
Author(s) -
Shaima A Alanqari,
Ahmed ElSayed Mahmoud,
Ashwaq F. Alfaqeer,
Fayaz aahmed
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
surgical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2613-5965
DOI - 10.31487/j.scr.2019.03.01
Subject(s) - myxoma , medicine , cardiac tumors , pathology , heart neoplasms , radiology
Benign cardiac myxoma with glandular differentiation is an extremely rare subtype of cardiac tumors which can mimic myxosarcoma grossly and histologically. Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare and account for less than 0.2% of all tumors. They are benign in 75% of cases and almost 50% of these are myxomas. The differentiation between benign and malignant cardiac tumors is challenging by echocardiography or histologically. We report a case of primary left atrial benign cardiac myxoma mimicking myxosarcoma grossly and histologically by its glandular differentiation. Only 39 such cases reported in the literature.