Leiomyosarcoma


Cardiac myxoma

A myxoma (tumor of primitive connective tissue) of the heart. Cardiac myxomas consist of stellate to plump, cytologically bland mesenchymal cells set in a myxoid stroma. Cardiac myxomas are of endocardial origina and general project from the endocardium into a cardiac chamber.


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PMID (PMCID)
11264566
 FEMALE Middle Aged
Myxoid leiomyosarcoma of the left atrium: a rare malignancy of the heart and its comparison with atrial myxoma.
Morin JE, Rahal DP, Huttner I.
Can J Cardiol. 2001;17(3):331-6.
An exception to this rule is leiomyosarcoma, a rare form of primary cardiac sarcoma that occurs predominantly in the left atrium, as does cardiac myxoma.
1631764
 FEMALE Adult
Cerebral metastasis of malignant cardiac myxoma.
Todo T, Usui M, Nagashima K.
Surg Neurol. 1992;37(5):374-9.
The parenchymal brain tumor of a 32-year-old woman with a history of surgical operations on cardiac myxoma and jejunal leiomyosarcoma was surgically extirpated.