title: Asymptomatic fatty changes in the myocardium of a patient with tuberous sclerosis.
abstract: Rhabdomyomas are the most common primary cardiac tumors in childhood. They usually occur on ventricular and septal walls. In approximately half of the cases, rhabdomyoma is associated with tuberous sclerosis. Most rhabdomyomas regress during the first years of life. We present MRI findings of fatty replacement of the myocardium which was probably after spontaneous regression of solid mass (rhabdomyoma) in a 16-year-old boy with tuberous sclerosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. dr.selim79@gmail.com
authors.forename: Selim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bakan
authors.forename: Aghakishi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yahyayev
authors.forename: Ayse Ahsen
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Bakan
authors.forename: Memduh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dursun
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism*; D000293:Adolescent; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000378:metabolism; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D014402:Tuberous Sclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000378:metabolism*; D014463:Ultrasonography