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Calcified papillary fibroelastoma of the tricuspid valve
B Paelinck1, P Vermeersch, M Kockx
1Department of Cardiology, AZ Middelheim, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Acta Cardiologica
|October 30, 1998
Abstract:
Papillary fibroelastoma (PFE) is an infrequently and often incidentally encountered benign tumour found on the endocardium. We describe the case of a patient with a small, mobile, calcified mass on the tricuspid valve incidentally seen during radioscopy for cardiac catheterization. Echocardiography revealed a rounded, bulky shaped and calcified tumour. At histopathology a PFE with extensive dystrophic calcifications was found. To our knowledge this is the second case report of calcified PFE.