Partial surgical resection is a viable treatment for hemodynamically unstable neonates with giant right ventricular rhabdomyomas, allowing for subsequent spontaneous regression of the remnant.
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May support partial resection in unstable neonates; hypothesis-generating for giant RV rhabdomyoma management.
Tumors are rare in neonates. The most common type is a benign rhabdomyoma. Rhabdomyoma is self-regressing with time. However, if a tumor is huge and causing hemodynamic instability, surgery is indicated. We present successful cardiac surgery for partial removal of a giant rhabdomyoma tumor in the right ventricle of a 7-day-old neonate and spontaneous regression of the remnant tumor mass at follow-up.
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