Abstract

CHALJUB BRAVO, Ernesto et al. Rare coincidence of two tumors: cardiac myxoma and hypernephroma. A case report. CorSalud [online]. 2018, vol.10, n.4, pp. 330-335. ISSN 2078-7170.

The association of two tumors of different origin in the same patient is becoming more frequent in the current clinical practice. Here is presented a case with a rare association of cardiac myxoma and hypernephroma, previously treated. Due to the presence of neurological symptoms, there was initially set a diagnosis of brain metastasis from the renal tumor; then, with the echocardiographic finding of an intracardiac mass, the possibility of thrombus was considered, therefore a cardiac surgery was decided to be performed urgently in order to resect it. The pathologic examination confirmed the existence of a cardiac myxoma, then, we have a patient with two tumor diseases whose coincidence has been rarely described.

Keywords : Atrial myxoma; Renal cell carcinoma; Embolism; Multiple primary neoplasms.

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