European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access originally published online on March 15, 2008
European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(3):317-318; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen119
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Multidisciplinary approach in a case of successful surgical treatment of a voluminous intracardiac fungal mass in an infant
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department
Policlinico-Giovanni XXIII Hospital
University of Bari
Piazza Giulio Cesare 11
Bari 70100
Italy
Via Lorenzo D'Agostino 1/a
70124 Bari
Italy.
Tel: +39 080 546 1499.
Fax: +39 027 0041 1718.
E-mail address: detroise@libero.it
Department of Obstetric Gynecology and Neonatology
University of Bari
Piazza Giulio Cesare 11
Bari 70100
Italy
Department of Obstetric Gynecology and Neonatology
University of Bari
Piazza Giulio Cesare 11
Bari 70100
Italy
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department
Policlinico-Giovanni XXIII Hospital
University of Bari
Piazza Giulio Cesare 11
Bari 70100
Italy
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department
Policlinico-Giovanni XXIII Hospital
University of Bari
Piazza Giulio Cesare 11
Bari 70100
Italy
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department
Policlinico-Giovanni XXIII Hospital
University of Bari
Piazza Giulio Cesare 11
Bari 70100
Italy
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department
Policlinico-Giovanni XXIII Hospital
University of Bari
Piazza Giulio Cesare 11
Bari 70100
Italy
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We have read with great interest the article by Correale et al.1 on a case of voluminous mycetoma in a newborn with Down Syndrome. The interest, in that case, was more than academic because of the brilliant and positive collaboration we had set up, at that time, offering cardiac surgical treatment to the patient referred by the colleagues at the Hospital OO.RR of Foggia. After a complete echocardiographic examination revealing a mass within the right atrium of an infant (6-month-old female) with a history of corrective surgery for duodenal stenosis
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