Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 116-117, April 2007

A Rare Intracardiac Mass: Cardiac Paraganglioma

  • Yildirim Imren, MD

      Affiliations

    • Gazi University Medical Faculty, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Ankara, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Gazi University Medical Faculty, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Gazi Hospital, Besevler 06500, Ankara, Turkey. Tel.: +90 312 202 67 97; fax: +90 312 212 90 14.
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  • Irfan Tasoglu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Gazi University Medical Faculty, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Ankara, Turkey
    • ,
  • Ariel A. Benson, BA

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University – New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA
    • ,
  • Volkan Sinci, MD

      Affiliations

    • Gazi University Medical Faculty, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Ankara, Turkey

Received 23 August 2006; accepted 4 December 2006.

It is very rare for heart tissue to give rise to a primary paraganglioma. Here, we report the observation of such a tumour in a 34-year-old woman who presented with symptoms of pulmonary venous congestion. The findings from echocardiography were consistent with the diagnosis of a myxoma that was partially occluding the left atrium. Surgery was performed in which a large (6cm×5cm×3cm), non-lobulated solid tumour was resected from the posterior wall of the atrium. Upon histologic evaluation, this was determined to be a cardiac paraganglioma.

Keywords: Cardiac tumours, Paraganglioma

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PII: S1443-9506(06)00291-5

doi:10.1016/j.hlc.2006.12.002

Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 116-117, April 2007

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