Fetal cardiac tumors
Congenital
cardiac masses: a case report. Fetal echocardiography at 32 weeks 5 days gestational age showed two similar small echogenicity in RV apex and septal aspect (4 mm × 2.6 mm) (arrows) suspicious of rhabdomyomas. Normal valvar function
Cardiac
rhabdomyoma • Fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Fetal cardiac tumors refer to primary cardiac tumors that can present in the in utero population.
Epidemiology
Fetal cardiac tumors are rare; the prevalence, reported from autopsy studies of patients of all ages, varies from 0.0017-0.28 % .
Pathology
Known cardiac tumor types that present in the fetal population include:
- cardiac rhabdomyoma: considered the commonest fetal cardiac tumor
- cardiac fibroma: considered second commonest fetal cardiac tumor
- cardiac teratoma: considered third commonest fetal cardiac tumor
- cardiac myxoma
- cardiac hemangioma
See also
Siehe auch:
Assoziationen und Differentialdiagnosen zu fetale kardiale Tumoren:
