Successful removal of papillary endocardial fibroma.
We report a case of systemic embolization secondary to a small papillary endocardial fibroma, a rare cardiac tumor. It was attached to a chords of the mitral valve by a short stalk. The tumor was successfully excised and the mitral valve was preserved. Two-dimensional echocardiography played the major role in the diagnosis of this small endocardial tumor.
D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D004699:Endocardium / Q000473:pathology; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male