title: [Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas: report of 2 cases].
abstract: We report 2 cases of cardiac papillary fibroelastomas in adults. Case 1: A 61-year-old man was admitted because echocardiography showed a 1 cm pedunculated papillary tumor in the left atrium. In an operation, it was located in the left atrium near the mitral valve and was resected along with a 5 mm margin of endocardium. Case 2: A 60-year-old woman had a 1 cm mobile tumor in the right ventricle near the tricuspid valve located by echocardiography in a preoperative examination of a ventricular septal defect. In an operation, a pedunculated tumor located in the right ventricle was resected. In these 2 cases, histopathology showed the tumor to be a papillary fibroelastoma. Almost all cardiac papillary fibroelastoma are closely related to the cardiac valve, but in these cases, the tumors were located in the left atrium, and the right ventricle, respectively, which is quite rare.
authors.affiliation: Division off Cardiovascular Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan.
authors.forename: Masanobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kaminishi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Konishi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aizawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakano
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Misawa
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography