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

Etiology

metastatic tumors:

primary tumors:

More general terms

More specific terms

References

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