A case of congenital cardiac rhabdomyoma is described in a 5-month-old female pig. Multiple nodules of various sizes in the wall of the ventricles were made up of large myoblastic cells containing glycogen and cytoplasmic vacuoles. Typical ‘spider cells’ occurred.
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