Blood Cyst of Subvalvular Apparatus of the Mitral Valve in an Adult

Blood cysts of the heart are rare benign tumors, usually involving the cardiac valves. They are found mainly in the first month of life and in children; and are rarely seen in adults. Here, we report a case of a blood cyst on the subvalvular apparatus of the mitral valve, which was incidentally disc...

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Autores principales: Park, Mi Hee, Jung, Soo-Yeon, Youn, Ho Joong, Jin, Jung Yeon, Lee, Jong Hwan, Jung, Hae Ok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Echocardiography 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185658
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2012.20.3.146
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Sumario:Blood cysts of the heart are rare benign tumors, usually involving the cardiac valves. They are found mainly in the first month of life and in children; and are rarely seen in adults. Here, we report a case of a blood cyst on the subvalvular apparatus of the mitral valve, which was incidentally discovered during chest computed tomography in a 47-year-old man. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of blood cyst of the heart in an adult in Korea.

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