Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:455. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.04.044
Copyright © 2008, European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier. All rights reserved.
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Papillary fibroelastoma of the aortic valve
Yoshie Ochiaia,*,
Yutaka Imotoa,
Akira Sesea,
Mitsuru Nomab
a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyushu Koseinenkin Hospital, 1-8-1, Kishinoura, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 806-8501, Japan
b Department of Cardiology, Kyushu Koseinenkin Hospital, Japan
Received 12 February 2008;
received in revised form 8 April 2008;
accepted 22 April 2008.
* Corresponding author. Tel.: +81 93 641 5111; fax: +81 93 642 1868. (Email: ochiaiy{at}alto.ocn.ne.jp).
Key Words: Papillary fibroelastoma • Aortic valve
In 67-year-old woman without any cardiac or neurologic symptoms, a transesophageal echocardiogram showed a rounded mass attached to the non-coronary cusp of the aortic valve (Video 1). We excised the tumor with preservation of the valve (Fig. 1
). Gross examination (Fig. 2
) and light microscopy confirmed the diagnosis of papillary fibroelastoma.
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Fig. 1. Intraoperative gross appearance of the papillary fibroelastoma attached to the non-coronary cusp of the aortic valve.
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Fig. 2. Gross specimen from the non-coronary cusp demonstrates the typical macroscopic appearance resembling a sea anemone.
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Supplementary data
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