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Successful resection of a primary cardiac fibroma in a neonate: report of a case

Surgery Today volume 44, pages 1768–1770 (2014)Cite this article

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During the fetal-neonatal period, a primary cardiac tumor may be completely asymptomatic and such tumors may be incidentally discovered by echocardiography. A four-hour-old male was diagnosed to have a cardiac tumor by post-natal echocardiography and was observed closely. Surgery was indicated immediately at the 3 week follow-up examination when the tumor was found to have obstructed the right ventricle outflow. The tumor was resected successfully and its histopathology indicated that it was a fibroma. Follow-up echocardiograms and magnetic resonance imaging 5 months postoperatively demonstrated no evidence of any remaining tumor and his RV function was good.

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    Xian-Gang Yan, Bing Jia, Bing-Xue Zhu & Xi-Hong Hu

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Yan, XG., Jia, B., Zhu, BX. et al. Successful resection of a primary cardiac fibroma in a neonate: report of a case. Surg Today 44, 1768–1770 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-013-0614-5

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Keywords

  • Cardiac tumor
  • Fibromas
  • Neonate
  • Surgery