title: Aortic valve papillary fibroelastoma. A diagnosis by transthoracic echocardiography.
abstract: Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas are unusual, frond-like growths typically found on cardiac valves, diagnosed incidentally on autopsy or cardiac surgery, but rarely during life. We report a rare case of an aortic valve papillary fibroelastoma detected by transthoracic echocardiography and confirmed by histologic study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 10032.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gopal
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Li Mandri
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marboe
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Homma
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005350:Fibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged