Our division wishes to share interesting case images of a giant aneurysm of the left atrial appendage in an infant. He was asymptomatic and was diagnosed incidentally. The aneurysm was excised uneventfully. Left atrial appendage aneurysms are commonly reported in adults, but they are quite rare in the infant population.
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