[Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of heart tumors in infancy and childhood]

Klin Padiatr. 1989 Jan-Feb;201(1):16-20. doi: 10.1055/s-2007-1025269.
[Article in German]

Abstract

The clinical features of 10 children, in whom the diagnosis of a cardiac tumor has been made, are reviewed. There were nonspecific systolic murmurs in 9 patients, depression of the S-T segment in the ECG of 7 children, and premature extrasystoles or supraventricular tachycardia in 4 children. X-ray always showed mild to moderate enlargement of the heart, but an abnormal contour could be detected only in 2 of the patients. While findings of cardiac catheterization were unspecific, the diagnosis could be made angiographically in 8 cases. Invasive studies, however, are now only indicated, if a proper diagnosis cannot be made by means of echocardiography. The diagnosis should be suspected in children with a nonspecific murmur, cardiomegaly and ECG-changes. Usually the diagnosis of a cardiac tumor is an indication for operation.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Fibroma / diagnosis
  • Heart Aneurysm / diagnosis
  • Heart Neoplasms / congenital
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Prognosis
  • Rhabdomyoma / diagnosis
  • Teratoma / diagnosis