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papillary fibroelastoma
Thursday 4 January 2007
Papillary fibroelastoma is the third most common primary tumor of the heart and most commonly involve the cardiac valves. Most papillary fibroelastomas do not cause symptoms and they are usually incidental findings by routine echocardiography or at autopsy.
Synopsis
possible coronary artery ostial obstruction (20486964)
cardiogenic shock (17167391)
Localization
pulmonary valve papillary fibroelastoma
aortic valve papillary fibroelastoma
Variants
multiple papillary fibroelastomas
- multiple papillary fibroelastomas of the aortic valve (17196273)
See also
cardiac tumors
- cardiac benign tumors
- cardiac fibromas
