The Turkish Journal of Vascular Surgery

Yazarlar: H. Tankut AKAY, Ali AYHAN, Atilla SEZGİN

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Angiomyoma; vena cava,Inferior; cardiopulmonary bypass

Özet: Intravenous leiomyomatosis (IVL) with cardiac extension is a rare uterine tumor. We present an unusual case of angioleiomyoma that progressed along the inferior vena cava into the right atrium. At first, the patient was diagnosed as right atrial myxoma. The diagnosis changed af- ter removal of the right atrial mass and the patient was diagnosed with angioleiomyom.A second stage operation was performed involving removal of the right adnexial mass, simple hysterectomy and bilateral salphingooferectomy. IVC veinotomy and tumor resection was performed using car- diopulmonary bypass. This is a short report IVL with intracardiac extension which was successfully removed with a two staged procedure.

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