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  • Title: Papillary fibroelastoma of the heart. Report of six cases.
    Author: Almagro UA, Perry LS, Choi H, Pintar K.
    Journal: Arch Pathol Lab Med; 1982 Jul; 106(7):318-21. PubMed ID: 6896442.
    Abstract:
    Papillary fibroelastoma is a rare cardiac lesion, mostly encountered as an incidental finding at the time of autopsy but occasionally seen during life. Although this condition generally is asymptomatic, a few cases had been associated with clinical problems, such as embolic phenomena, angina pectoris, outflow tract obstruction, and sudden death. We studied six examples of this lesion, five occurring on the cardiac valves and one on the left ventricular septum. In one, the lesion was detected by echocardiography, which represents to our knowledge only the third published case in which the lesion was visualized by this diagnostic procedure and only the fourth in which the lesion was seen during life. We believe that echocardiography is sensitive in the detection of this often small, intracardiac lesion, useful in evaluating whether a case, by virtue of its size or location, carries a significant risk of causing clinical problems and therefore requires treatment.
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