Massive cardiac fibroma

Nikola Dobrilovic; Arun K Singh; Mark LeGolvan; Frank W Sellke

doi:10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01175.x

Massive cardiac fibroma

J Card Surg. 2011 Mar;26(2):159-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01175.x. Epub 2011 Feb 15.

Authors

Nikola Dobrilovic¹, Arun K Singh, Mark LeGolvan, Frank W Sellke

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. ndobrilovic@lifespan.org

PMID: 21323734
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01175.x

Abstract

Nonmyxomatous tumors of the heart are exceedingly rare in adults. We report a case of symptomatic, massive, right ventricular cardiac fibroma found in an adult. Despite multiple (preoperative) biopsies, diagnosis was made only after surgical excision.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Biopsy
Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Female
Fibroma / diagnosis*
Fibroma / surgery
Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Heart Neoplasms / surgery
Heart Ventricles
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine
Middle Aged
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Tomography, X-Ray Computed