Case Reports : A Case of Pulmonary Vein Tumor Presenting as a Left Atrial Mass

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...

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Published in:The Korean journal of internal medicine 2007-03, Vol.22 (1), p.32
Main Authors: Hyo Keun Jeon, Jung Ho Kim, Gwon Hyun Cho, Sun Young Kyung, Sung Hwan Jeong, Wook Jin Chung, Na Rae Kim
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Language:Korean
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Left atrium tumor
Pulmonary vein tumor
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1226-3303
2005-6648