A Case of Synchronous Primary Right Atrial Myxoma and Occult Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
- Author:
Sang Mi LEE
1
;
Young Wook SONG
;
Hong Min KIM
;
Bong Seok SHIN
;
In Sung JUNG
;
Jun Young JEONG
;
Jeong Kyung KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Sun Hospital, Daejeon, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Myxoma;
Heart atrium;
Neoplasm metastasis;
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- MeSH:
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular*;
Heart Atria;
Incidence;
Myxoma*;
Neoplasm Metastasis
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Echocardiography
2002;10(1):84-88
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The incidence of cardiac metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is about 1-4% and especially metastasis to right atrium (RA) is very rare, with an incidence of only 0.7-3% in a postmortem series. But, most RA tumors associated with HCC are intracardiac metastasis and the occurrence of synchronous primary RA myxoma and HCC is extremely rare. We report one case that a cardiac mass was primary RA myxoma initially misdiagnosed as occult HCC with intracardiac metastasis.
