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Primitive intrapericardial teratoma associated with yolk sac tumour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2014

Enrico Cetrano ,
Angelo Polito  and
Adriano Carotti
Enrico Cetrano*
Affiliation:
Unit of Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Angelo Polito
Affiliation:
Unit of Cardiac Intensive Care, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Adriano Carotti
Affiliation:
Unit of Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
*
Correspondence to: Dr E. Cetrano, MD, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Piazza S. Onofrio, 4, 00165 Roma, Italy. Tel: (39) 06 68592258; Fax: (39) 06 68592670; E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

An intrapericardial vacuolated mass compressing and displacing the heart was diagnosed by echocardiography in a foetus of 22 weeks gestation. The birth was induced for early signs of foetal distress at 29 weeks and, after two initial pericardial evacuation procedures, the tumour was resected radically 7 days after birth at a weight of 1.55 kg. Mass histology showed teratoma associated with yolk sac tumour. We comment on the overall approach adopted after foetal diagnosis and the histopathological features of the tumour, and try to draw conclusions on patient outcome data.

Keywords

Teratomaneonatalcardiac surgery
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 158 - 160
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2014 

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