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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;126:881-883
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Brief communications

Recurrence of a right ventricular hemangioma

^a Department of Cardiac Surgery, Parma, Italy
^b Department of Pathology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Received for publication December 29, 2002; accepted for publication January 7, 2003.

^* Address for reprints: A. Colli, MD, Cattedra e Divisione di Cardiochirurgia, Università degli Studi, Via A. Gramsci 14, 43100 Parma, Italy
colli.andrea@libero.it

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Dr Colli

The majority of cardiac tumors are benign, with only 25% to 30% being histologically malignant. Only 0.8% to 5% of all benign primary cardiac tumors are hemangiomas.^1,2

Cardiac hemangiomas are vascular tumors, composed of capillaries or cavernous vascular channels.³ Patients usually have a variety of symptoms depending on location and extension of the tumor. Diagnosis and management of these tumors are difficult and delayed and require multiple investigations.

We report a case of late recurrence of a cardiac hemangioma of the right ventricle from surgical treatment at our institution 10 years previously.

Clinical summary

A 69-year-old man who had resection of a hemangioma of the right ventricle 10 years before was readmitted to our institution because of echocardiographic findings of an ovular mass (1.6 x 2.7 cm) under the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve (Figure 1, A). The neoformation determined mild tricuspid regurgitation. The patient had been pharmacologically treated 6 months before for an episode of supraventricular paroxysmal tachycardia. Until then, no pathologic findings had been reported by the previously . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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