MULTIPLE CARDIAC TUMORS IN NEONATES: A CASE REPORT

Abstract

Benign and malignant tumors of heart are very uncommon and their diagnosis was very much challenging for physicians since the seventeenth century.Primary tumors of heart are very rare with an incidence of in autopsy series reported to be between 0.001 to 0.03 percent.Most patients with myxoma are 30-60 years of age although myxoma have been discovered in children, infants and neonate and the elderly. Children10 have higher incidence of ventricular myxoma than to adults.It is very interesting to find cardiac tumors in this age group, only few cases have been reported. Neonate myxomas are extremely rare, this is the only case for the last twenty year in this lab. where 20-30 cases are referred for echocardiography every day.