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An unusual presentation of schwannoma in the interatrial space
Joon Chul Jung1, Hyoung Woo Chang1, Kyung-Hwan Kim1
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital.
Abstract:
We report the case of a 69-year-old woman who was diagnosed with intracardiac schwannoma without symptoms. Preoperative echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showed a mass attached to the interatrial septum. The initial diagnosis was a myxoma or a bronchogenic cyst. The tumor was successfully excised under cardiopulmonary bypass. However, the pathology of the excised tumor was consistent with schwannoma. We suggest that cardiovascular surgeons consider schwannoma to be a possible differential diagnosis for a mass close to the interatrial septum.
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