Benign mediastinal schwannoma: cardiac considerations

Rausche, Tim; El-Mokthari, Nour-Eddine; Krüger, Dietmar; Herrman, G. R.; Tiroke, Andreas; Rahimi-Barfeh, Asis; Lins, Markus

doi:10.1007/s00392-006-0396-5

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“…According to the previous case reports, patients with intracardiac schwannoma had various presentations, such as new-onset atrial fibrillation, recent shortness of breath, pleuritic chest discomfort, and chronic cough [2–5]. There was one patient without symptoms from the tumor [6].…”

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An Unusual Presentation of Schwannoma in the Interatrial Space

Jung

Chang

Kim

2015

Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg

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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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An Unusual Presentation of Schwannoma in the Interatrial Space

Jung

Chang

Kim

2015

Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg

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Benign pericardial schwannoma with massive pericardial effusion in a Chinese man: A case report

Zhang

Fan

et al. 2019

Echocardiography

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Primary cardiac neoplasms are rare, and the pericardial schwannoma has an even lower occurrence. We report a case of pericardial schwannoma in China, which is the eighth reported case adding to the existing literature on pericardial schwannoma, and this is the first case reported complicated with massive pericardial effusion. Pericardial schwannomas are usually benign, but they can sometimes have a malignant tendency and cause life‐threatening complications. Thus, it should be managed aggressively and completely resected.

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