Cardiac tumors in both twins – A case report of a rare occurrence

Cardiac tumors in neonates and infancy are one among the many known congenital cardiac diseases. Although fetal cardiac tumors are rare, there is increased detection because of expertise in echocadiographic examination. Rhabdomyomas are the most common cardiac tumors among infants and children. Here...

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Autores principales: Babu, NM Sharath, Behera, Dibyaranjan, Alex, Anoop George, Varghese, Lijo, George, Oommen K
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7437622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32863661
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_98_19
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author Babu, NM Sharath
Behera, Dibyaranjan
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description Cardiac tumors in neonates and infancy are one among the many known congenital cardiac diseases. Although fetal cardiac tumors are rare, there is increased detection because of expertise in echocadiographic examination. Rhabdomyomas are the most common cardiac tumors among infants and children. Here, we describe twin neonates who had multiple cardiac tumors. This kind of presentation appears to be a very rare situation.
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spelling pubmed-74376222020-08-28 Cardiac tumors in both twins – A case report of a rare occurrence Babu, NM Sharath Behera, Dibyaranjan Alex, Anoop George Varghese, Lijo George, Oommen K Ann Pediatr Cardiol Case Report Cardiac tumors in neonates and infancy are one among the many known congenital cardiac diseases. Although fetal cardiac tumors are rare, there is increased detection because of expertise in echocadiographic examination. Rhabdomyomas are the most common cardiac tumors among infants and children. Here, we describe twin neonates who had multiple cardiac tumors. This kind of presentation appears to be a very rare situation. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7437622/ /pubmed/32863661 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_98_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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