Ohmoto Y, Tsuchihashi K, Tanaka S, Shimamoto K, Iimura O
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical College, Japan.
Chest. 1993 Mar;103(3):965-6. doi: 10.1378/chest.103.3.965.
A 57-year-old man had a histologically proven giant blood cyst in the left ventricle. An encapsulated mobile cystic tumor (3 x 3 x 4 cm), which was attached to the anterolateral papillary muscle by a stalk, was successfully resected by a transaortic valve approach for preserving cardiac function.