Publication Date

1-1-2021

Journal

The Texas Heart Institute Journal

DOI

10.14503/THIJ-19-7066

PMID

33915573

Publication Date(s)

January 2021

Language

English

PMCID

PMC8108713

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

4-29-2021

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-Print

Published Open-Access

yes

Keywords

Echocardiography, heart neoplasms/diagnosis/pathology/secondary/surgery, heart ventricles/pathology, leiomyoma, neoplasm metastasis, uterine neoplasms/diagnosis

Abstract

We report a rare case of benign metastasizing leiomyoma in the heart of a 45-year-old woman 2 years after a uterine leiomyoma had been discovered during hysterectomy. Computed tomograms at presentation showed a large mixed cystic mass in the pelvis and bilateral lung nodules suggestive of metastatic disease. A large cardiac mass, attached to the chordae of the tricuspid valve and later shown to be histopathologically consistent with uterine leiomyoma, was successfully resected through a right atriotomy. This case suggests that benign metastasizing leiomyoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of right-sided cardiac tumors.

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