CASE REPORTS   

Chirurgia 2012 October;25(5):383-5

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language: English

Cardiac cavernous hemangioma of the right atrium

Koshida Y., Watanabe G., Tomita S., Iino K., Noda Y.

Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Cardiac hemangiomas are exceptionally rare, vascular neoplasms of the heart, with an incidence of 1% to 2% among all detected benign heart tumors. With the availability of the advanced imaging modalities of the heart, asymptomatic cardiac tumors are detected more frequently. These tumors are composed either of capillaries or larger cavernous channels. In this case report, we discuss the discovery of the tumor and treatment of our patient.