ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 April 1978
Page Count: 4

Cardiac Hemangioma: A Rare (or Possible) Cause of Sudden Death in Children
Chapman, AJ
Chief medical examiner, State of Oklahoma

Altshuler, G
Associate professor of pathology and pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Okla.

Krous, HF
Assistant professor of pathology and pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Okla.

(Received 20 July 1977; accepted 23 September 1977)

Abstract

Recently we had occasion to study an apparently healthy 13-year-old girl who died suddenly and unexpectedly. Necropsy revealed that her death was most likely caused by an arrhythmia induced by hemangiomatous involvement of the ventricular conduction system. Cardiac neoplasms have commonly been described in literature of the English language [1], but hemangiomas, especially those of small size, have rarely been reported [1–9]. This lack of reports may be attributed to a failure of detection. It would appear from published cases that some lesions, whether or not hemangiomatous, may be so diminutive as to pass unnoticed even at necropsy examination [1,10–13]. For this reason, as well as the rarity of our encounter, we report the following case.

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Paper ID: JFS10771J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10771J
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