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The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 1998 August;39(4):479-82

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Vascular hamartoma of the left ventricle

Miche E., Kloppe A., Minami K.*, Montanus H., Ohlmeier H., Koerfer R.*, Notohamiprodjo G., Raute-Kreinsen U.**, Mirow N.*, Bogunovic N., Gleichmann U.

From the Herzzentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Universitatsklinik der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bad Oeynhaysen, Kardiologische Klinik * Klinik fur Thorax- und Kardiovaskularchirurgie, ** Pathologisches Institut, Stadtische Kliniken Bielefeld, Germany

Primary tumors of the heart are very rare. We report a case of a 28-year old female patient in whom a tumor of the left ventricle was first diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography. Angiography, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and fasting positron emission tomography, with 18-fluorodesoxyglucose suggested the diagnosis of a well vascularized tumor. The tumor was subtotally excised during heart surgery iunder total cardiopulmonary bypass and histological examination identified a predominantly vascular hamartoma.