Successful Detection and Surgical Treatment of Cardiac Hemangioma With Right Ventricular Invasion Yasunori Iida, MD, Tsutomu Ito, MD, Hiroto Kitahara, MD, Motojiro Takebe, MD, Atsushi Nemoto, MD, Reiko Shimokawa, MD, Akihiro Yoshitake, MD, Takahiko Misumi, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 96, Issue 4, Pages 1481-1483 (October 2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.02.054 Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) Preoperative contrast medium–enhanced computed tomographic scan showing a bulky and infiltrating mass on the surface of the right ventricle (arrow). (B) Echocardiogram showing sizes of the bilocular mass as 2.82 × 2.28 cm and 2.38 × 2.57 cm (arrow). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 96, 1481-1483DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.02.054) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 (A,B) Perioperative macroscopic findings showing a reddish, smooth and bulky tumor (arrow). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 96, 1481-1483DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.02.054) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 (A) Microscopic pathologic appearance with hematoxylin and eosin staining showing large vessels with a considerable amount of blood enclosed within the vascular endothelium, which was categorized as a hemangioma with a cavernous and capillary type pattern (×100, arrows). (B) Immunohistochemical staining of CD31 showing strongly stained endothelial cells (×100). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 96, 1481-1483DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.02.054) Copyright © 2013 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions