Cardiac tumour in a newborn.

Primary cardiac tumours are mostly benign and rare in paediatric practice. Here, a male baby was presented with history of birth asphyxia. On examination he was found to have a systolic murmur and was initially thought to be either a case of ventricular septal defect or tricuspid regurgitation due to asphyxial cardiomyopathy. Echocardiography revealed normal LV systolic function, intact interatrial septum and interventicular septum without intracardiac shunt and normal cardiac valve morphology. There was a multilobulated solitary intracardiac mass with a narrow stalk arising from RV free wall. Thus the diagnosis of cardiac tumour was clinched.