Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Cardiac tumour was first described by Columbus in 15621, but identifying a tumour in a living patient was documented in 19342
Type of cardiac tumour incidence varies with age, myxoma being the most prevalent tumour in adolescence[4]
Since the incidence of cardiac tumours is difficult to ascertain it is important to report every case encountered in clinical practice
Summary
Cardiac tumour was first described by Columbus in 15621, but identifying a tumour in a living patient was documented in 19342. Case report A 13-year old elder child of a healthy non consanguineous couple without a significant family history presented to medical attention following a syncopal attack while preparing for school. Discussion General autopsy series revealed a cardiac tumour prevalence of 0.002 – 0.03%5 and autopsy series in children revealed an incidence of 0.027–0.08%6. According to previous autopsy reports, common primary cardiac tumours are rhabdomyoma (45%), fibroma (25%), myxoma (10%), intrapericardial teratoma (10%) and haemangioma (5%)[4].
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