A rare cardiac tumor presenting with myxoma: Primary cardiac hemangioendothelioma

Ertürk Karaağaç

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.20695

Ertürk Karaağaç¹, Nihan Yeşilkaya², Tahsin Murat Tellioğlu², Fulya Çakalağaoğlu Ünay³, Yüksel Beşir²

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Muş State Hospital, Muş, Turkey
²Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, İzmir Katip Çelebi University Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
³Department of Medical Pathology, İzmir Katip Çelebi University Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.20695

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a rare malignant vascular tumor which originates from the vascular endothelial or dendritic cells and has a moderate malignancy between benign hemangioma and malignant hemangiosarcoma, arising from vascular structures. Radical resection of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is recommended, due to both its malignant nature and the adverse effects of associated complications on mortality and morbidity. In this article, we present a rare case of primary cardiac epithelioid hemangioendothelioma accompanied by a left atrial myxoma which was treated by resection.

Keywords : Cardiac, hemangioendothelioma, myxoma, primary, tumor

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