[Successful resection of left ventricular myxoma in a toddler; report of a case].
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.
Heima
Daisuke
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Nemoto
S
S
Ikeda
T
T
Nishio
H
H
Doi
H
H
Iwasa
T
T
Kaku
H
H
Nakajima
H
H
Ohno
N
N
Nishina
T
T
Komeda
M
M
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*