[Synchronic hepatocellular carcinoma with atrial myxoma. A case report].

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Departamento de Anatomia Patologíca, Hospital General de México y Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.

Published: June 2011

The case of a 60-year-old woman with history of cryptogenic hepatic cirrhosis and a probable hepatic tumor, who died of upper gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to esophageal varices, is presented. An autopsy study was carried out, which showed a hepatocellular carcinoma and a left atrial cardiac myxoma with glandular elements. A review of the literature, searching for the association between these two tumors, in addition to other tumors, is presented.

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