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Cardiac tumors

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Congenital Heart Defects

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Abstract

Primary cardiac tumors are very rare clinical entities, with benign neoplasms occurring three to four times more often (70–90%) than malignant tumors (10–30%). Only series of myxomas in adults have been reported, while very few series involving different types of primary cardiac tumors in children have been reported. In this chapter only types of pediatric cardiac tumors occurring in the pediatric age will be considered. Metastatic cardiac neoplasms are not included. The ability to detect cardiac tumors with noninvasive diagnostic procedures even during the prenatal period has led to an apparent increase in this diagnosis, with incidences reported from 0.06% cases to 0.32%, while the reported autopsy series was limited to 0.027–0.08%.

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Corno, A.F. (2004). Cardiac tumors. In: Congenital Heart Defects. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7985-1934-3_16

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