Left atrial myxoma presenting as Gerstmann syndrome

Carl Bloom, MD; Raquel del Carpio-O'Donovan, MD, FRCPC; Ted Wein, MD; Louis R. Bégin, MD

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal 1996; 47: 16

Bloom, del Carpio-O'Donovan - Department of Radiology; Wein - Department of Neurology; Bégin - Department of Pathology, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Que.
Paper reprints of the full text may be obtained from: Dr. Carl Bloom, Department of Radiology, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Rd., Montreal QC H3T 1E2

Abstract

The authors describe a 29-year-old woman who presented with Gerstmann syndrome secondary to underlying left atrial myxoma. The clinicoradiologic features of atrial myxoma, as well as its neurologic manifestations, are reviewed.

Key words: atrial myxoma, Gerstmann syndrome, echocardiography

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