Cardiac tumors are rare. They were found in only 0.001%–0.300% of cases in a relatively recently reported autopsy series. Among cardiac tumors, primary hemangioma accounted for approximately 2.8% of all primary resected tumors, indicating this is a particularly rare benign neoplasm. We present a patient with a 5×3×2 cm cavernous hemangioma, arising from the right atrial roof and occupying the atrial septum and inseparable from the aortic root. We successfully accomplished a complete surgical resection of a cardiac cavernous hemangioma and reconstructed the cardiac atrium by a bovine pericardial patch.

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Cardiac tumors are rare, which were found in only 0.001%–0.300% of cases in a relatively recently reported autopsy series. Among cardiac tumors, primary hemangioma accounted for approximately 2.8% of all primary resected tumors, indicating that this is a particularly rare benign neoplasm. We presented a patient with a 5×3×2 cm cavernous hemangioma arising from the right atrial roof, occupying the atrial septum and inseparable from the aortic root. We successfully performed complete surgical tumor resection and reconstruction of the right atrium and atrial septum using a bovine pericardial patch for a huge cavernous cardiac hemangioma filling the cardiac atrium.