Massive paediatric cardiac tumour: good medium-term outcome

A 7-week-old boy presented with decreased feeding and tachypnoea. On examination he had a pansystolic murmur and hepatomegaly. Echocardiogram delineated a large cystic tumour attached to the left ventricular myocardium, continuous with the papillary muscles (figure 1A,B). Figure 1 (A) Echocardiography: apical four-chamber view demonstrating extensive tumour within the LV cavity. (B) Echocardiography: short-axis image demonstrating extensive tumour size and heterogeneous tissue types. (C) MRI: minimal enhancement on late gadolinium enhancement. (D) MRI steady-state free precession: heterogeneous signal within the tumour. (E) CT: marked compression of …