title: Primary mitral valve sarcoma in infancy.
abstract: Primary cardiac sarcoma is a rare tumor, found especially in children, particularly in the left side of the heart. This report describes a rare case of primary mitral valve sarcoma in a 7-month-old male infant with hemiparesis and heart murmur who underwent mitral valve replacement because of excessive invasion of the mitral valve by the tumor. The patient remains well, free of recurrence and cerebral metastasis, and without adjuvant therapy 18 months after the operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Kagawa Children's Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Egawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohshio
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohta
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayabuchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Seki
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D006337:Heart Murmurs / Q000150:complications; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000637:transplantation; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*