Hypervascular Metastatic Cardiac Tumors : An Unknown Cause of Mitral Valve Prolapse

A 40-yr-old woman with alveolar soft-part sarcoma and multiple hypervascular cardiac tumors involving both left and right ventricles is reported. Papillary muscle dysfunction and mitral valve prolapse with mitral regurgitation were caused by the largest tumor in the left ventricle. (Internal Medicin...

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Published inInternal Medicine Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 78 - 81
Main Authors ONIKI, Toshiyuki, HASHIMOTO, Yuji, FUJINUMA, Yoshinori, MARUYAMA, Yoshiaki, NAMBA, Kenichi, YAJIMA, Michiyoshi, NUMANO, Fujio, MAEZAWA, Hidenori
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Japan The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 1992
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Adult
alveolar soft-part sarcoma
Coronary Angiography
coronary arteriography
Echocardiography
Female
Heart Neoplasms - blood supply
Heart Neoplasms - complications
Heart Neoplasms - secondary
Humans
Lung Neoplasms
Mitral Valve Insufficiency - diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve Insufficiency - etiology
Mitral Valve Prolapse - diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve Prolapse - etiology
Sarcoma - blood supply
Sarcoma - complications
Sarcoma - secondary
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Summary:A 40-yr-old woman with alveolar soft-part sarcoma and multiple hypervascular cardiac tumors involving both left and right ventricles is reported. Papillary muscle dysfunction and mitral valve prolapse with mitral regurgitation were caused by the largest tumor in the left ventricle. (Internal Medicine 31 : 78-81, 1992)
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ISSN:0918-2918
1349-7235
DOI:10.2169/internalmedicine.31.78