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Surgical Treatment of a Left Ventricular Neurofibroma
Author(s) -
Iino Kenji,
Matsumoto Yasushi,
Endo Masamitsu,
Kawakami Kengo,
Kasashima Fuminori,
Sasaki Hisao,
Kawashima Atsuhiro
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.00135.x
Subject(s) - medicine , neurofibroma , concomitant , nerve sheath , surgery , radiology , neurofibromatosis , schwannoma
Primary cardiac neurofibroma is a rare occurrence. We describe a case of left ventricular neurofibroma in a 56‐year‐old woman with Von Recklinghausen disease. Resection of the tumor with concomitant mitral valve replacement yielded a satisfactory clinical result, and histological examination of the resected tissue confirmed benign neurofibroma. The anatomic distribution of the vagus nerve plexus, which penetrates the epicardium and myocardium and courses over the left ventricular subendocardial surface, provides a tissue source from which this neurogenic tumor may arise.