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 (6 cm × 5 cm × 3 cm), non-lobulated solid tumour was resected from the posterior wall of the atrium.
Upon histologic evaluation, this was determined to be a cardiac paraganglioma.
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Publication history
Accepted:
December 4,
2006
Received:
August 23,
2006
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© 2006 Australasian Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
