myxoma

(23) One-half of the cases contain psammoma bodies and approximately one-half of those individuals have Carney complex (CC), a familial multitumoral syndrome, comprising spotty skin pigmentation (lentigines and blue nevi), myxomas (heart, skin, and breast), endocrine tumors (adrenal cortex, pituitary, testis, and thyroid), and psammomatous MS.* We review the status of MS in the literature, discussing putative etiology, clinicopathologic findings, and differential diagnoses.

Fibroelastomas are the third most common primary tumors after myxomas and lipomas and constitute 8-10% of benign heart tumors (1).

They have an autopsy frequency of between 0.001-0.030%, with three-fourth of them being benign.2 Almost half of the benign cardiac tumours are myxomas and the rest are papillary fibroelastomas, rhabdomyomas, fibromas and lipomas.2 Cardiac fibroma is the second most common paediatric tumour of the heart.1 The usual age at presentation is 13 years3 with almost one-third patients presenting at less than one year of age.4 Only 15% patients present in adulthood.4 Our patient presented quite late at the age of thirty-eight years which is uncommon for cardiac fibromas.

The origin and clinical manifestations of cardiac myxomas are heterogeneous.

(8) At times, the cyst may undergo degeneration and appear solid and this solid-appearing intracardiac mass proves difficult to differentiate from cardiac myxomas. Membranes may detach from the cyst wall and on SSFP MR Sequences, are visualized floating within the cyst.

Myxomas are rare benign tumors arising mostly from the connective tissues of the heart.

The differentiation of POTs from odontogenic myxomas is mandatory, considering the fact that odontogenic myxomas are more aggressive tumors and require more aggressive mode of treatment.

Myxomas are benign tumors that generally arise from the heart, soft tissues, muscle, skin and bone (1).

Studies suggest that myxomas occur in up to 0.5% of all stroke patients with women in their fifties at the greatest risk [9].

One study on atrial myxomas reported as high as 12% incidence of central nervous system complications from left atrial tumors [9].

Myxomas are a rare benign myxoid neoplasm of mesenchymal origin.

Primary pediatric cardiac tumors are rare; ventricular myxomas are rarer still.