Cardiac tumors may be primary (either benign or malignant) or secondary (malignant) and
are first detected by echocardiography in most cases. The cardiologist often challenges their …

Cardiac myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor. However, existing literature
mainly consists of single-center experiences with limited subjects. This systematic review …

To investigate the characteristics and pathological features of primary cardiac tumors and to
evaluate the diagnostic sensitivity of echocardiography in primary cardiac tumors, all …

Right atrial myxoma can be heralded by nonspecific constitutional symptoms-ie, remittent or
lasting fever; weight loss; chronic anemia and general arthralgia-and may escape timely …

Although cardiac myxomas are histologically benign, they tend to form emboli and cause
intracardiac obstruction, so that they must be classified as potentially fatal tumors of the …

BACKGROUND Cardiac myxomas are the most frequent cardiac tumors. Although
histologically benign, in some cases myxomas may be lethal, due to impairment of cardiac …

Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare and constitute only about 5% of all cardiac
tumors. Cardiac myxomas are noncancerous primary tumors of the heart and constitute …

Discussion About 75% of cardiac masses are benign. Cardiac myxoma is the most frequent
cardiac tumour found in adults, whereas it is rhabdomyoma in children. 1 Myxoma typically …

Objective Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary neoplasms of heart. The present
study was performed on the 61 cases of patients with cardiac myxoma, in order to …

Primary malignant cardiac tumors are represented by sarcomas and non-Hodgkin
lymphomas. They are rare, affect mostly patients in the fourth decade of life and have a …