Abstract
A case of cardiac fibroma in a neonate with a fatal outcome due to consumptive coagulopathy is described. Fetal monitoring suggested a cardiac anomaly during labour, and the tumor was clinically manifest from birth with exceptionally wide anatomic spread.
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Abend, M., Tirosh, E., Grishkan, A. et al. Congenital cardiac fibroma: An unusual presentation. Eur J Pediatr 139, 207–209 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01377361
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