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Unusual case of left atrial myxoma with gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma
Narinder Pal Singh1, Swapan Deep Singh Nagpal1, Arun Kumar Goel2
11 Department of Internal Medicine, 230265 Max Super Speciality Hospital , Vaishali, Ghaziabad, India.
Abstract:
Cardiac myxomas are rare tumors. Esophageal adenocarcinomas are common tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. Simultaneous occurrence of these tumors has not been reported. A 52-year-old gentleman presented to our hospital with dysphagia and was diagnosed with esophageal adenocarcinoma. Routine echocardiography discovered a cardiac tumor in the left atrium. The cardiac tumor was surgically removed and biopsy confirmed a myxoma. We removed the cardiac tumor as the first step and then initiated neoadjuvant chemotherapy. It is ideal to constitute a multidisciplinary team to decide on the course of treatment in such cases.
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