Irma Miranda Chávez, Luis Muñoz Castellanos, Alfonso Buendía Hernández, Alberto Aranda Faustro, Julio Erdmenger Orellana, Samuel Ramírez Marroquín

Language: Español
References: 6
Page: 49-52
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ABSTRACT

Primary heart tumors are not very common, frequent ones during childhood are the rhabdomyomas. This diagnostic can be made since fetal life. Evolution variates, in some cases there are no symptoms and the diagnostic represents an echocardiographic finding, other cases are detected associated with tuberous sclerosis and a small group express by arrhythmias or low output. Because of the strange of this presentation this case is presented.

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