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A right ventricular rhabdomyoma in a child presenting with right ventricular outflow tract obstruction

Mustafa Yılmaz, Ulaş Kumbasar, Baran Şimşek, İlhan Paşaoğlu

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Keywords: Cardiac mass, rhabdomyoma, right ventricle

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Primary tumors of the heart are extremely rare. Rhabdomyomas usually do not require any treatment, unless they cause outflow/inflow obstruction or conduction disturbances. Herein, we present an eight-year-old boy with a cardiac rhabdomyoma causing right ventricle outflow tract obstruction, which was successfully resected.

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