Long-term remission after resection, chemotherapy, and irradiation of a metastatic myxoma

Ann Thorac Surg. 1998 Nov;66(5):1791-2. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4975(98)00917-5.

Abstract

Malignant local or metastatic myxomatous tumors of the heart are rare and sometimes present with an unpredictable outcome. The present report demonstrates an unusual case of left atrial myxoma with a rather strange distribution of metastases that had long-term remission after combined surgical resection, chemotherapy, and irradiation of cerebral and pulmonary metastases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Heart Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myxoma / therapy*
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • Remission Induction / methods