title: A case report of primary cardiac capillary hemangioma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Hemangioma of the heart, presenting as a primary cardiac tumor is extremely rare.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present a 20-year-old male with a cardiac tumor which was incidentally discovered during routine clinical examination.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Echocardiography showed a large intramyocardial mass attached to the left ventricle, close to the apex. A tumor was shown near the apex of the left ventricle by Cardiac CT. We performed a total resection surgery of the tumor one week after admission and the patient recovered well and discharged from hospital 7 d after surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The pathological diagnosis was primary cardiac capillary hemangioma. No tumor recurrence was shown by echocardiography after 20 months follow-up visits.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery , Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University , Yangzhou , Jiangsu Province 225001 , China.
authors.forename: Jidan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery , The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University , Changsha , Hunan Province , 410011 , China.
authors.forename: Xiaobo
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.affiliation: b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery , The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University , Changsha , Hunan Province , 410011 , China.
authors.forename: Xinmin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D018324:Hemangioma, Capillary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000473:pathology
keywords: Cardiac capillary hemangioma; no recurrence; resection surgery