Polypoid fibroma of the left auricle (so-called cardiac myxoma) causing a ball-valve action

For years the separation of carcinoma and sarcoma and the subclassification of sarcomas has been based on the appearance of the tumor cells and their microscopic growth pattern and information derived from certain histochemical and special stains. Although this method of study has produced good agreement among pathologists in the separation of carcinoma from sarcoma, it has given less uniform results in the subclassification of sarcomas. There remain examples of neoplasms of different histogenesis, the classification of which is questionable because of similar cytologic and growth patterns at the light microscopic level; i.e. amelanotic melanoma versus carcinoma and occasionally sarcoma, sarcomas with an epithelial pattern of growth simulating carcinoma, histologically similar mesenchymal tumors of different histogenesis (histiocytoma versus rhabdomyosarcoma, lytic osteogenic sarcoma versus rhabdomyosarcoma), and myxomatous mesenchymal tumors of diverse histogenesis (myxoid rhabdo and liposarcomas, cardiac myxoma, myxoid neurofibroma, etc.)

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Morphology: Biatrial Cardiac Myxoma

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance ◽

10.3109/10976640009148680 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 119-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Oliver Strohm ◽

Jeanette Schulz-menger ◽

Sebastian Philipp ◽

Karl-Josef Osterziel ◽

Bernd Schubel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cardiac Myxoma

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Cardiac Myxoma

Circulation ◽

10.1161/01.cir.94.5.1137 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 94 (5) ◽

pp. 1137-1137 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Klaus Reynen ◽

Werner G. Daniel

Keyword(s):

Cardiac Myxoma

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Infected Cardiac Myxoma

Echocardiography ◽

10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.02177.x ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 65-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Shawn A. Gregory ◽

William T. O'Byrne ◽

Pohoey Fan

Keyword(s):

Cardiac Myxoma

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Sudden Sensorineural Hearing and Vestibular Loss in a Case of Relapsing Polychondritis

Annals of Otology Rhinology & Laryngology ◽

10.1177/00034894211005979 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 000348942110059

Author(s):

Özge Akdoğan ◽

Smirnov Exilus ◽

Bryan K. Ward ◽

Justin C. McArthur ◽

Charles C. Della Santina ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cochlear Implantation ◽

Pure Tone ◽

Relapsing Polychondritis ◽

Sensorineural Hearing ◽

High Dose ◽

Left Auricle ◽

Vestibular Loss ◽

Patient Reported ◽

Loss Of Hearing ◽

Hearing Outcomes

Objectives: To report a case of profound bilateral sensorineural hearing and vestibular loss from relapsing polychondritis and hearing outcomes after cochlear implantation. Methods: Case report and literature review. Results: A 43 year-old woman developed sudden loss of hearing and balance that progressed over several weeks to bilateral, profound hearing and vestibular loss. Steroid treatments were ineffective. She underwent vestibular physical therapy and left cochlear implantation. About 10 months after her initial presentation, she developed erythema, warmth, swelling, and pain of the left auricle sparing the lobule, flattening of the bridge of her nose, and right ankle swelling, warmth, and skin erythema. A biopsy of the left auricle revealed histopathologic findings consistent with relapsing polychondritis. She was treated with high dose prednisolone. The ear inflammation resolved, however, despite excellent auditory response to pure tone thresholds, the patient reported no improvement in speech perception after cochlear implantation. Conclusions: Relapsing polychondritis can present with rapidly progressive, profound loss of hearing and vestibular function. Hearing outcomes after cochlear implantation can include poor speech discrimination despite good pure tone detection thresholds.

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