A Case of Pulmonary Vein Tumor Presenting as a Left Atrial Mass
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
;
: 32-36, 2007.
Article
in English
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ABSTRACT
Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare and can originate within the heart or be the result of tumor spread from other sites. We report a female patient with a pulmonary vein tumor extending into the left atrium that had a suspicious primary malignant origin with a sacral metastatic carcinoma. The patient was admitted complaining of pain in her buttock area as a result of a sacral tumor. It was believed that the sacral tumor was a metastasis from the imaging study and clinical manifestation. The primary malignant origin was evaluated. The chest CT showed a left atrium thrombus-like lesion without a pulmonary abnormality. After a transesophageal echocardiogram, the patient was diagnosed with a pulmonary vein tumor extending to the left atrium. The patient was given palliative radiotherapy for the sacral pain. Initially, the clinical impression was a metastatic sacral tumor with a thromboembolism of the left atrium. However, this patient was finally diagnosed with a pulmonary vein tumor with a left atrium extension by a transesophageal echocardiogram.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Palliative Care
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Pulmonary Veins
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Sacrococcygeal Region
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Thromboembolism
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Vascular Neoplasms
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Heart Atria
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Heart Neoplasms
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
Year:
2007
Type:
Article
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