title: [Successful resection of left ventricular myxoma in a toddler; report of a case].
abstract: A 4-year-old girl was found to have large left ventricular myxoma without any tumor-related symptoms. She underwent an urgent surgery and the myxoma was successfully removed through a left ventriculectomy. Great care was taken to prevent tumor-embolization during surgery, and to resect the endocardium attaching directly to the tumor. Future surveillance of this case warrants our operative technique described in this report.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Heima
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nemoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishio
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Doi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iwasa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kaku
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ohno
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishina
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Komeda
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*