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Cardiovascular Ultrasound BioMed Central Case report Open Access Asymptomatic papillary fibroelastoma of the Aortic valve in a young woman - a case report 1 1 1 Fragiskos Parthenakis , Evangelia Nyktari , Alexandros Patrianakos , 2 2 1 Antonis Pitsis , Anthoula Asimaki and Panos Vardas* Address: 1Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece and 2Cardiosurgery Department, Agios Loukas, Thessaloniki, Greece Email: Fragiskos Parthenakis - fparth@med.uoc.gr; Evangelia Nyktari - eyanykt@; Alexandros Patrianakos - apatrianakos@yahoo.gr; Antonis Pitsis - apitsis@otenet.gr; Anthoula Asimaki - svlachop@auth.gr; Panos Vardas* - cardio@med.uoc.gr * Corresponding author Published: 2 September 2009 Received: 17 July 2009 Accepted: 2 September 2009 Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009, 7:43 doi:10.1186/1476-7120-7-43 This article is available from: /content/7/1/43 © 2009 Parthenakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Echocardiography represents an invaluable diagnostic tool for the detection of intracardiac masses while simultaneously provides information about their size, location, mobility