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Skeletal Radiology
Published in: Skeletal Radiology 1/2011

01-01-2011 | Case Report

Bone metastasis of glandular cardiac myxoma mimicking a metastatic carcinoma

Authors: Shantveer G. Uppin, Nirmala Jambhekar, Ajay Puri, Rajiv Kumar, Manish Agarwal, Darshana Sanghvi

Published in: Skeletal Radiology | Issue 1/2011

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Abstract

Skeletal metastasis from a cardiac myxoma is rare. We describe an extremely unusual case of a cardiac myxoma metastasing to the femur in a 46-year-old female presenting with pain in the right hip. Radiographs showed an expansile lytic lesion with pathological fracture involving the neck and proximal shaft of the right femur. Histology revealed features of cardiac myxoma with heterologous glandular elements, which was initially mistaken for a metastatic mucin-secreting adenocarcinoma.
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Metadata
Title
Bone metastasis of glandular cardiac myxoma mimicking a metastatic carcinoma
Authors
Shantveer G. Uppin
Nirmala Jambhekar
Ajay Puri
Rajiv Kumar
Manish Agarwal
Darshana Sanghvi
Publication date
01-01-2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Skeletal Radiology / Issue 1/2011
Print ISSN: 0364-2348
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2161
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-010-0966-5

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