Clinical Trial: Surgery for Intravenous Leiomyomatosis

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational




Official Title: Surgical Management of Intravenous Leiomyomatosis With Intracardiac Extension: Our Experience and Outcomes

Brief Summary: Intravenous leiomyomatosis (IVL) with intracardiac extension is a rare benign smooth muscle tumor. Reviewing literature, intracardiac extension of the IVL has been reported in at least 70 cases. Most are individual case reports. Surgical experience is not much. However, different opinion of surgical strategies remain controversial. The purpose of this report is to describe our experience of surgical management for the IVL with intracardiac extension.