Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.
2000 Dec;33(12):971-973.
A Case of Cardiac Lymphoma Developed in Right Atrium
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- 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Dae Jon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea.
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- Primary cardiac lymphoma is an uncommon malignancy, accounting for 1.3% of primary cardiac tumors and 0.5% of extranodal lymphomas. However, secondary involvement of the heart is seen in 8.7-27.2% of the documented clinical cases of lymphoma. A 66-year-old man was referred to us for evaluation of dyspnea. A tumor mass was detected by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiogram in the right atrium. The tumor was surgically resected. The pathologic diagnosis was a malignant lymphoma(diffuse large B cell type) had associated with intracavitary involvement of the right atrium. But acute mediastinitis was developed and then the patient was expired due to sepsis and bleeding at postoperative 9 days.
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