Combination of cardiac and carotid glomus tumour: a rare case report

Autor: Feridoun Sabzi, Aghigh Heydari, Mohammad Rouzbahani, Reza Heidari Moghaddam, Atefeh Asadmobini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Folia Medica, Vol 64, Iss 6, Pp 1012-1015 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1314-2143
DOI: 10.3897/folmed.64.e67448
Popis: The most common tumour of the heart is myxoma but paraganglioma (also called glomus tumour in extracardiac sites) in the cardiac position is the rarest of them. While this tumour accounts for 0.8% of all primary benign tumours, the combination of both neoplasms is an exceedingly rare occurrence. Herein, we present a case of combined carotid glomus tumour and left atrial paraganglioma tumour in which respiratory distress was the presenting symptom of cardiac type but carotid tumour was asymptomatic. The case underwent a two-step resection of the neck and cardiac mass with an uncomplicated postoperative course and in the 1year follow-up, no recurrence of tumour in both sites was found on physical exam and imaging studies.
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