Ventricular mass: a clinical and surgical conundrum.
Cardiac tumours are rare in occurrence. The authors report a patient who presented with a history of recurrent transient ischemic attacks and cerebrovascular accidents. During rehabilitation he was incidentally diagnosed with a large left ventricular mass which was excised successfully with good clinical outcome. On histopathology it was a papillary fibroelastoma.
Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Heart and Lung Centre, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK. mishrapk_25@yahoo.com
Pankaj Kumar
PK
Mishra
Paul
P
Davison
Suresh
S
Lakshmanan
Giampaolo
G
Martinelli
Stephen John
SJ
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005350:Fibroma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male