[Isolated left ventricular myxoma discovered by two-dimensional echocardiography]

We describe the case of a young patient in whom two-dimensional echocardiography, performed because of mild palpitation, discovered the presence of a small mass into the left ventricle, attached to the interventricular septum. The patient was operated upon on cardiopulmonary by-pass, and the mass was removed through the aortic valve, without any complication during the postoperative period. On histology the mass appeared to be a typical myxoma. This case has been reported because the infrequency of ventricular location of the myxoma is unusual, and because the use of 2D-echocardiography, even in the absence of significant symptoms and/or clinical signs, avoided dangerous embolic complications, which often represent the first sign of this neoplastic pathology.