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11289388

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-5
pubmed:abstractText
The term myxosarcoma is currently not used in standard classification for soft tissue tumors, but restricted to cardiac tumors. Primary cardiac myxosarcoma is a very rare disease and is difficult to differentiate from myxoma clinically and pathologically. We report a case of left atrial myxosarcoma with widespread systemic metastasis in a 21-yr-old male. The patient presented with sudden onset of intermittent dyspnea and orthopnea. Echocardiography showed a mobile, pedunculated tumor, 7.5x5x2 cm in size, at left atrium. Histologically, the excised tumor showed an amorphous finely fibrillar and mucinous stroma, in which irregular cords and clusters of lepidic cells and large stellate cells with plump vesicular nuclei resembled the usual type of cardiac myxoma were noted. And it showed focally cellular area with great nuclear pleomorphism and frequent mitoses. The patient received combination chemotherapy, peripheral blood stem cell collection transplantation and operations for systemic metastases in the brain, skeletal muscle and lung. He is alive at present 37 months after initial diagnosis and has no more new metastatic lesion.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1011-8934
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
111-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-3-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Left atrial myxosarcoma with systemic metastasis: a case report.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Pusan, Korea.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports