title: Pediatric left atrial myxoma: surgical excision and mitral valve plasty.
abstract: This report describes the case of a 12-year-old girl with a giant left atrial myxoma who presented with severe mitral regurgitation symptoms. Echocardiography demonstrated a 69 x 30 mm solid mass in the left atrium (LA), occupying almost the entire mitral orifice. After successful surgical excision of the tumor, concomitant with mitral valve plasty, there was no clinical or echocardiographic recurrence at 12-month follow-up.
authors: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saitama Children's Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
authors: Koji
authors: K
authors: Nomura
authors: Yuzuru
authors: Y
authors: Nakamura
authors: Yoshimasa
authors: Y
authors: Uno
authors: Masahito
authors: M
authors: Yamashiro
mesh_terms: D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D002648:Child; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*