title: Infantile cardiac vascular tumour: from prenatal diagnosis to postnatal treatment.
abstract: Primary vascular tumour of the heart is rare, especially in neonates and infants. We report a male premature newborn with a right atrial tumour associated with a large amount of pericardial effusion detected by screening foetal echography. Diagnosis of capillary haemangioma was confirmed by histopathological examination after complete surgical resection. Other vascular tumours in the neonates and infants reported in the English literatures are reviewed, and one algorithm for both prenatal and postnatal management is proposed.
authors.affiliation: 1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,Department of Surgery,College of Medicine,National Cheng Kung University,Tainan,Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ting-Wei
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: 2Division of Cardiology,Department of Pediatrics,College of Medicine,National Cheng Kung University,Tainan,Taiwan.
authors.forename: Jieh-Neng
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: 1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,Department of Surgery,College of Medicine,National Cheng Kung University,Tainan,Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chung-Dann
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Kan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000150:complications; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Cardiac vascular tumour; cardiac haemangioma; pericardial effusion