Gopal A, Li Mandri G, King D L, Marboe C, Homma S
Department of Medicine, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 10032.
Chest. 1994 Jun;105(6):1885-7. doi: 10.1378/chest.105.6.1885.
Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas are unusual, frond-like growths typically found on cardiac valves, diagnosed incidentally on autopsy or cardiac surgery, but rarely during life. We report a rare case of an aortic valve papillary fibroelastoma detected by transthoracic echocardiography and confirmed by histologic study.