Cerebral Angiography in Cardiac Myxoma

Abstract

A report of 3 cases illustrates the cerebral angiographic findings which can be encountered in left atrial myxoma with cerebral embolization. Since there apparently has been no previous record of the pathological basis of the unusual developments in chronic stages of the embolization, neuropathological findings at autopsy in one patient have been extensively described. Recognition of these angiographic features may be of major significance in establishing diagnosis. To the classical six varieties of aneurysm should probably be added this rare variety, neoplastic, since some of these aneurysms have sufficient remaining elements of the arterial wall to be classified as true aneurysms.