A case of malignant fibrous histiocytoma with invasion into great vessels and heart which was confused with benign myxoma.
- Author:
Sung Kyun SIN
1
;
Kyung Jin LEE
;
Ki Ryong SONG
;
Sung Yeon CHO
;
Woo Jin HYUN
;
Soon Chang PARK
;
Jung Kyun LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea. kjlee@emc.eulji.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Cardiac neoplasm;
Fibrous histiocytoma;
Myxoma
- MeSH:
Aged;
Dyspnea;
Echocardiography;
Extremities;
Heart Atria;
Heart Diseases;
Heart Neoplasms;
Heart*;
Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous;
Histiocytoma, Malignant Fibrous*;
Humans;
Myxoma*
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2004;67(5):535-539
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Cardiac tumors are rare. Benign myxoma is the most common among them. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma is a tumor originating from primitive mesenchymal cell and found most commonly in four extremities. Since this disease was first described by Shah in 1978, there have been a lot of case reports of cardiac malignant fibrous histiocytoma. If originating in the heart, it is usually found in left atrium which is unusual for malignant cardiac tumor. Since the advent of the echocardiography as a diagnostic tool in the cardiac disease, a lot more cases of cardiac tumor have been reported. Here, we report a case of cardiac malignant fibrous histiocytoma in a 67 year old man presenting with dyspnea who, at first sight, seemed to have benign myxoma but turned out to have malignant fibrous histiocytoma. However, strictly speaking,the case we found is a cardiac invasion of the retroperitoneal malignant fibrous histiocytoma.
