1. Intracardiac heterotopia--mesenchymal and endodermal.
- Author
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Ariza S, Rafel E, Castillo JA, and Garcia-Canton JA
- Subjects
- Choristoma diagnosis, Diagnosis, Differential, Endoderm pathology, Heart Neoplasms diagnosis, Humans, Infant, Male, Myxoma diagnosis, Neoplasm Invasiveness, Vena Cava, Superior pathology, Choristoma pathology, Heart Neoplasms pathology
- Abstract
A case is reported of an intracardiac 'epithelial heterotopia' with a predominant mesenchymal component. This is thought to have resulted from the differentiation of aberrant primitive cell(s) displaced into the heart during its development. Though microscopically resembling a myxoma, this lesion is clearly distinguished by the presence of glandular structures. The myxoid component exhibited a startling invasiveness which resulted in occlusion of the superior vena cava, causing symptoms very early in life and death at the age of 6 months.
- Published
- 1978
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