Polymyalgia syndrome and atrial myxoma

• Published in: Anales de medicina interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984) Vol. 15; no. 7; p. 370
• Main Authors: Gómez Rodríguez, N, Vilar Freire, M, Ferreiro Seoane, J L, Ibáñez Ruán, J, Trinidad López, C, Noriega Peiró, F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Spain 01.07.1998
• Subjects: Diagnosis, Differential; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Electromyography; Female; Heart Atria; Heart Neoplasms - complications; Heart Neoplasms - diagnosis; Heart Neoplasms - surgery; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Middle Aged; Myxoma - complications; Myxoma - diagnosis; Myxoma - surgery; Polymyalgia Rheumatica - complications; Polymyalgia Rheumatica - diagnosis; Syndrome

We present a case of polymyalgia-like syndrome in a 62-years-old woman with four month history of severe headache, muscular claudication, asthenia, normochromic, normocytic anaemia and elevation of erytrocyte sedimentation rate. A diagnosis of giant left atrial myxoma was made brought about by thora...