CALCIFIED PAPILLARY FIBROELASTOMA OF THE TRICUSPID-VALVE

Papillary fibroelastoma (PFE) is an infrequently and often incidentall y encountered benign tumour found on the endocardium. We describe the case of a patient with a small, mobile, calcified mass on the tricuspi d valve incidentally seen during radioscopy for cardiac catheterizatio n. Echocardiography revealed a rounded, bulky shaped and calcified tum our. At histopathology a PFE with extensive dystrophic calcifications was found. To our knowledge this is the second case report of calcifie d PFE.