TY - JOUR
T1 - Cardiac hemangioma of the left atrial appendag
T2 - A case report and discussion
AU - Chiappini, Bruno
AU - Gregorini, Renato
AU - Vecchio, Luciano
AU - Petrella, Licia
AU - Di Pietrantonio, Fabrizio
AU - Giancola, Raffaele
AU - Mazzola, Alessandro
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Cardiac hemangioma is an extremely rare, benign vascular tumor of the heart. In contrast to myxoma, hemangioma rarely involves left atrial tissue in adults and little information about the tumor is available. We encountered a 65-year-old woman with a left atrial hemangioma arising in the appendage and growing like an extracardiac mass. The tumor was removed from the left atrium with all the left appendage under cardiopulmonary bypass. Histopathological examination revealed that it was a cavernous-type hemangioma. Among the five described cases, this case was the only one in which the tumor arose from the appendage and grew into the pericardial cavity with resultant paroxystic atrial fibrillation.
AB - Cardiac hemangioma is an extremely rare, benign vascular tumor of the heart. In contrast to myxoma, hemangioma rarely involves left atrial tissue in adults and little information about the tumor is available. We encountered a 65-year-old woman with a left atrial hemangioma arising in the appendage and growing like an extracardiac mass. The tumor was removed from the left atrium with all the left appendage under cardiopulmonary bypass. Histopathological examination revealed that it was a cavernous-type hemangioma. Among the five described cases, this case was the only one in which the tumor arose from the appendage and grew into the pericardial cavity with resultant paroxystic atrial fibrillation.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2009.00850.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2009.00850.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 19740288
AN - SCOPUS:69949118059
VL - 24
SP - 522
EP - 523
JO - Journal of Cardiac Surgery
JF - Journal of Cardiac Surgery
SN - 0886-0440
IS - 5
ER -