[Isolated right ventricular myxoma: report of a clinical case].
A clinical case of a 14 years old white female with asthenia and easy fatigue of two months duration is presented. The two-dimensional echocardiography study has identified a tumorous and homogeneous mass filling completely the right ventricle. During the cardiac surgery and with the help of extemporaneous biopsy the real nature of the tumor was confirmed-cardiac myxoma. In this report the authors discuss the incidence of cardiac tumors and particularly cardiac myxomas and point out the rarity of isolated myxomas in the right ventricle.
Martins
T
T
Hospital de São João do Porto.
Puig
J
J
Macedo
F
F
Vieira
A
A
Gomes
M R
MR
van Zeller
P
P
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery