title: Successful resection of a primary cardiac fibroma in a neonate: report of a case.
abstract: During the fetal-neonatal period, a primary cardiac tumor may be completely asymptomatic and such tumors may be incidentally discovered by echocardiography. A four-hour-old male was diagnosed to have a cardiac tumor by post-natal echocardiography and was observed closely. Surgery was indicated immediately at the 3 week follow-up examination when the tumor was found to have obstructed the right ventricle outflow. The tumor was resected successfully and its histopathology indicated that it was a fibroma. Follow-up echocardiograms and magnetic resonance imaging 5 months postoperatively demonstrated no evidence of any remaining tumor and his RV function was good.
authors.affiliation: The Cardiac Center of Fu Dan University Children's Hospital, 399 Wan Yuan Road, Shanghai, China, xgyan@fudan.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xian-Gang
authors.initials: XG
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Bing-Xue
authors.initials: BX
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Xi-Hong
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography; D005350:Fibroma / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000209:etiology