Difference between revisions of "Cystic tumour of the atrioventricular nodal region"

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 | Prognosis  = good if caught in time
 | Other      =
-| ClinDDx    =
+| ClinDDx    = other [[cardiac tumours]]
-| Tx         = excision
+| Tx         = excision for diagnosis + pacemaker
 }}
 '''Cystic tumour of the atrioventricular nodal region''', abbreviated '''CTAVNR''', is a rare cardiac tumour that can lead to [[sudden cardiac death]].
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 **Complete heart block.
 *Usually women - mean age 38 years.
+Treatment:
+*Excision + pacemaker.<ref name=pmid19237400>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Guo | first1 = J. | last2 = Zuo | first2 = S. | last3 = Lin | first3 = C. | last4 = Ji | first4 = Y. | title = Surgical treatment of a giant cystic tumor of the atrioventricular nodal region. | journal = Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg | volume = 8 | issue = 5 | pages = 592-3 | month = May | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1510/icvts.2008.191866 | PMID = 19237400 }}</ref><ref name=pmid16195634>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Saito | first1 = S. | last2 = Kobayashi | first2 = J. | last3 = Tagusari | first3 = O. | last4 = Bando | first4 = K. | last5 = Niwaya | first5 = K. | last6 = Nakajima | first6 = H. | last7 = Yamagishi | first7 = M. | last8 = Yagihara | first8 = T. | last9 = Kitamura | first9 = S. | title = Successful excision of a cystic tumor of the atrioventricular nodal region. | journal = Circ J | volume = 69 | issue = 10 | pages = 1293-4 | month = Oct | year = 2005 | doi =  | PMID = 16195634 }}</ref>
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