Highlights the possibility of diagnosing and successfully treating mesothelioma of the atrioventricular node during life.
Mesothelioma of atrioventricular nodes may cause congenital heart block and diagnosis is usually confirmed at postmortem. Awareness of the possibility of the development of this tumour and selective coronary arteriography may help to diagnose this in life.
Balasundaram et al. (1992) studied this question.