title: Operative treatment of an unresectable tumor of the left ventricle.
abstract: A 17-year-old girl presented with an enlarged cardiac silhouette on routine chest roentgenogram. After clinical evaluation, echocardiography, and pericardiocentesis failed to provide a diagnosis, exploratory thoracotomy and biopsy revealed an unresectable left ventricular fibroma. The tumor continued to enlarge and began causing ventricular arrhythmia. Therefore, she underwent cardiac transplantation 2 years after the initial diagnosis was made. She is now alive nd well 18 months following transplantation.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous