title: A communication from the left ventricle to the right atrium: a defect in the central fibrous body.
abstract: An isolated defect in the membranous atrioventricular septum was found in a five-year-old girl who presented with a cystic lesion in the right atrium. This type of left ventricular-right atrial communication could result from a structural abnormality of the central fibrous body in combination with arrested maturation of the membranous ventricular septum.
authors.affiliation: Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, U.K.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McKay
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Battistessa
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D004694:Endocardial Cushion Defects / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006343:Heart Septal Defects / Q000473:pathology*; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology