INTRACARDIAC ENDODERMAL HETEROTOPIA

Intracardiac endodermal heterotopia.

Intracardiac heterotopia--mesenchymal and endodermal.

A case is reported of an intracardiac 'epithelial heterotopia' with a predominant mesenchymal component. This is thought to have resulted from the differentiation of aberrant primitive cell(s) displaced into the heart during its development. Though microscopically resembling a myxoma, this lesion is clearly distinguished by the presence of glandular structures. The myxoid component exhibited a ...

Fatal Lyme carditis and endodermal heterotopia of the atrioventricular node.

A fatal case of Lyme carditis occurring in a Suffolk farmworker is reported. Post-mortem examination of the heart showed pericarditis, focal myocarditis and prominent endocardial and interstitial fibrosis. The additional finding of endodermal heterotopia ('mesothelioma') of the atrioventricular node raises the possibility that this could also be related to Lyme infection and account for the rel...

Periventricular heterotopia.

A 34-year-old epilepsy woman had first seizure when aged 14. Seizure patterns are mainly simple partial type, presented by a sense of air within chest wall rising to head or focal twitching of right hand. She also had generalized tonicclonic seizures before. In recent four years, she did not experience generalized seizure although simple partial seizures were noted average four to five times a ...

Heterotopia and structuralism

The concept of heterotopia was introduced and immediately abandoned by Michel Foucault in 1966 ^ 67, but it quickly diffused across human geography, urban theory, and cultural studies during the 1990s. Notwithstanding the deserved impact of Foucault's overall work on these fields, there are some conceptual problems with the heterotopia concept. While the desire for a single term to probe spatia...