| Literature DB >> 16132507 |
Muzaffer B Altundag1, Gulcin Ertas, Ali R Ucer, Sema Durmus, Hayati Abanuz, Tamer Calikoğlu, Kenan Ozbagi, Atila Demirkasimoglu, Bektas Kaya, Bekir H Bakkal, Kadri Altundag.
Abstract
Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign heart tumor. Cardiac myxoma can be a sporadic lesion (93% of cases) and usually occurs in women over 30 years. Complete surgical removal of the myxoma and its cardiac attachment is usually curative. The frequency of recurrences in cardiac myxomas varies between 3% for sporadic cases and 22% for cases of Carney complex. Recurrence has been related to incomplete excision, multifocality, and embolism of tumor fragments. We report a case with multiple brain metastases presumably due to tumor embolization from previously operated cardiac myxoma.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16132507 DOI： 10.1007/s11060-005-1859-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurooncol ISSN： 0167-594X Impact factor: 4.130