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
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
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.