title: Fetal cardiac tamponade due to an intrapericardial teratoma.
abstract: A case of an intrapericardial tumor diagnosed in utero at 26 weeks of gestation is presented. The prenatal echocardiographic follow-up of an incipient hydrops fetalis determined the management and the emergency surgical treatment. Histologically, the tumor appeared to be a benign teratoma, grade I. In the postoperative period an unexpected mediastinal tumor was found and removed later. This tumor also appeared to be a benign teratoma, grade 0. Both teratomas were independent and therefore primary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tollens
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Casselman
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Devlieger
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Gewillig
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vandenberghe
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Lerut
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Daenen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D015160:Hydrops Fetalis / Q000209:etiology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis; D010496:Pericardium; D013724:Teratoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis