DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2014.v02i10.012

Pages: 681-683

Primary cardiac tumours are rare, having an autopsy incidence as 0.001% to 0.03%. 75% of these tumours are benign and nearly half of benign tumours are myxomas which frequently cause systemic problems. We present a case of left atrial myxoma in a 40 year female patient complaining of breathlessness and non-radiating gradually progressive chest pain since 6 months. The 2D- ECHO revealed pedunculated mobile homogenous mass arising from fossa ovalis and protruding into left atrium. The tumour was excised; the gross examination revealed a gelatinous mass which was diagnosed histologically as left atrial myxoma. We present this case in view of its rarity and to highlight the clinicopathological features of cardiac myxomas.