title: Cardiac rhabdomyoma: surgical treatment in the neonate.
abstract: Primary cardiac tumors are rare. Of the benign lesions, rhabdomyoma predominates in infants and children. The natural history of patients with cardiac rhabdomyoma is poor. About 50% die in the first month of life and 80% by 1 year of age. We report on the two youngest infants ever operated upon successfully for removal of symptomatic ventricular cardiac rhabdomyoma. The operations were performed through a left ventriculotomy in one and through a right ventriculotomy in the other during the first day of life.
mesh_terms: D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000209:etiology; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*