Pericardial Hemangioma: A Common Tumour in an Unusual Location: Case Report and Review of Literature
Published: May 1, 2017 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2017/26564.9834
Rufus Sam Vargis, Manjiri Phansalkar, Somanath Padhi, Dilip Phansalkar, Sanjay R Nair
1. Post Graduate, Department of Pathology, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry, India.
2. Professor, Department of Pathology, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry, India.
3. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry, India.
4. Professor, Department of Radiology, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Poindicherry, India.
5. Assistant Profesor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Rufus Sam Vargis,
Room No. 204, Annex Block, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalapet-605014, Pondicherry, India.
E-mail: rufusvargis@gmail.com
Overall incidence of primary cardiac tumours ranges from 0.0017% and 0.27% at autopsy. Cardiac haemangiomas are rare, and account for 2.8% of benign cardiac tumours. Pericardial haemangiomas, in particular are extremely rare. Pericardial haemangiomas are reported to present with a variety of symptoms such as dyspnea, palpitation, atypical chest pain. Other symptoms like obstruction of blood vessels, cardiac tamponade, or pericardial effusion may result due to compression of surrounding structures. Here we report a case of pericardial haemangioma in a patient who presented with breathlessness and cough.
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