A primary intracavitary right atrial neurilemoma
Bizzarri, F.; Mondillo, S.; Tanganelli, P.; Lisi, G.; Guerrini, F.; Ammaturo, T.; Barbati, R.; Maccherini, M.; Toscano, M.
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 42(6): 777-779
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-9509 PMID: 11698945 Document Number: 535617
Primary cardiac neurilemoma, a benign tumor, is extremely uncommon. To our knowledge only eight cases have been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 72-year-old man who presented with complaints of progressive shortness of breath and chest pain, seven years after a right nephrectomy for renal adenocarcinoma. An intra-right atrial tumor was surgically removed; the lesion was found to be a neurilemoma of the right atrium. This case report describes the surgical removal and rarity of neurilemomas, their predisposition to be right-sided in the heart and their coincidental association with other types of cancer.