cardiac neoplasm
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Introduction
Most cardiac tumors are metastatic. The most common primary cardiac tumor is atrial myxoma. Classifivation:
WHO classification of cardiac tumors
- benign tumors and tumor-like conditions
- rhabdomyoma
- histiocytoid cardiomyoathy
- hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes
- adult cellular rhabdomyoma
- cardiac myxoma
- papillary fibroelastoma
- hemangioma
- cardiac fibroma
- inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor
- lipoma
- cystic tumor of atrioventricular node
- malignant tumors
- angiosarcoma
- epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
- malignant pleomorphic fibrous histiocytoma
- MFH/undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma
- fibrosarcoma and myxoid fibrosarcoma
- rhabdomyosarcoma
- leiomyosarcoma
- synovial sarcoma
- liposarcoma
- cardiac lymphomas
- metastatic tumors
- pericardial tumors
Etiology
- bone cancer
- breast cancer
- lymphoma
- leukemia
- thyroid carcinoma
- melanoma (50% of patients with malignant melanoma have metastases to the heart)
primary tumors:
- benign (75%)
- myxoma (30%)
- lipoma (10%)
- papillary fibroelastoma (10%)
- rhabdomyoma (8%)
- fibroma (4%)
- hemangioma (3%)
- teratoma (3%)
- mesothelioma of the AV node (3%)
- others (2%)
- malignant (25%)
More general terms
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References
- ↑ Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed) Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 56-57
- ↑ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th ed. Isselbacher et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1994, pg 1102
- ↑ WHO Classification Tumours of the Lung, Pleura, Thymus and Heart. Travis et al., ed. IARC Press 2004
- ↑ Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17, 18. American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015, 2018.
- ↑ Shapiro LM Cardiac tumours: diagnosis and management. Heart. 2001 Feb;85(2):218-22. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11156679
- ↑ Basso C, Rizzo S, Valente M, Thiene G. Cardiac masses and tumours. Heart. 2016 Aug 1;102(15):1230-45. Review. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27277840