Journal of Chest Surgery

The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (대한심장혈관흉부외과학회)
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An Unusual Presentation of Schwannoma in the Interatrial Space

  • Jung, Joon Chul (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Chang, Hyoung Woo (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Kyung-Hwan (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital)
  • Received : 2014.03.26
  • Accepted : 2014.06.09
  • Published : 2015.02.05
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Abstract

We report the case of a 69-year-old woman who was diagnosed with intracardiac schwannoma without symptoms. Preoperative echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showed a mass attached to the interatrial septum. The initial diagnosis was a myxoma or a bronchogenic cyst. The tumor was successfully excised under cardiopulmonary bypass. However, the pathology of the excised tumor was consistent with schwannoma. We suggest that cardiovascular surgeons consider schwannoma to be a possible differential diagnosis for a mass close to the interatrial septum.

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