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'''Associate Editor:''' '''Ranjan Ray'''



=Overview of Cardiac Tumors=

==Benign Tumors==

===Cardiac myxomas===

Frequency: 30% of benign tumors

Location: left atrium (75%), right atrium (23%), ventricles (2%)

presentation: intracardic obstruction, embolization, constitutional symptoms (fever, weight loss, fatigue, arthralgias, rash)

Preferred imaging modality: 2D echo- TTE is adequate

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===Lipomas===

Frequency: 10% of benign tumors

Location: Left ventricle, right atrium, interarterial septum

size: 1-15cm

Preferred imaging modality: MRI

===Rhabdomyomas===

Frequency: 6% of benign cardiac tumors

Location: ventricles and atria (pedunculated mass), within septal myocardium

presentation: heart block, SVT, ventricular tachycardia, sudden death

demographic: 75% occur in children (<1 yo)

===Fibromas===

Location: usually within the myocardium of the left ventricle, anterior free wall, interventricular septum

size: 3-10cm

presentation: 

demographic: rarely in adults, mostly in children

===Papillary fibroelastoma===

Frequency: 8% of benign tumors

Size: 0.5 - 2.0 cm

Location: mitral valve (most commonly), aortic valce, endocardial surfaces

Demographic: 60 yo (average age)

Presentation: embolization

===Hemangiomas===

==Malignant Tumors==

===Angiosarcoma===

Frequency: 30% of malignant cardiac tumors

===Leiomyosarcoma===

===Rhabdomycosarcoma===

Frequency: 10% of primary cardiac sarcoma. Most common cardiac tumor in children

===Lymphoma===

Fequency: 5% of primary malignant cardiac tumors

===Metastasis===

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