Fuwa S, Saeki S, Shinohara A, Kataka H, Naito K, Hirose H
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya Tokushukai Hospital.
Kokyu To Junkan. 1991 Apr;39(4):399-401.
We reported a case of a 77-year-old female, whose left atrial myxoma with a cyst, which had been identified by 2D echocardiography, was successfully resected. Apart from echocardiogram-revealed tumor hemorrhages in atrial myxomas, reports of echo-lucency within cardiac tumors are considerably rare. She was successfully operated on, and the section through the tumor specimen showed a cyst with a diameter of 10 mm, that corresponded to the echo-lucencies noted on the 2D echocardiogram. Even in an elderly patient, surgical treatment of left atrial myxoma offers excellent results with low morbidity and low mortality.
