Epidemiological and pathological characteristics of cardiac tumors: A clinical study of 242 cases

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 636-639

  Yu, Kun ^a   Liu, Yinglong ^a   Wang, Hongyue ^a   Hu, Shengshou ^a   Long, Cun ^a  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Cardiac tumor; Epidemiology; Myxomas; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROMA; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART MYXOMA; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENCHYMOMA; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASIAN; CHINA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LIPOMA; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LIPOMA; MALE; MESENCHYMOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHABDOMYOMA; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34848830795     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.156554     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Reynan K. Frequency of primary tumors of the heart. Am J Cardiol 1996;77:107-116.
2. Song Y, Hu R, Yao Q. Pathological analysis of 268 cases of tumors in the heart and the pericardium. J SUN Yat-sen-Univ (Med Sci) 2003;24:197-201.
3. Roberts WC. Primary and secondary neoplasms of the heart. Am J Cardiol 1997;80:671-682.
4. Holley DG, Martin GR, Brenner JI, Fyfe DA, Hunta JC, Kleinman CS, Ritter SB, Silverman NH. Diagnosis and management of fetal cardiac tumors: a multicenter experience and review of published reports. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;28:516-520.
5. Reynen K. Cardiac myxomas. N Engl J Med 1995;333:1610-1617.
6. Freedom RM, Lee KJ, MacDonald C, Taylor G. Selected aspects of cardiac tumors in infancy and childhood. Pediatr Cardiol 2000;21:299-316.
7. Yoon DH, Roberts W. Sex distribution in cardiac myxomas. Am J Cardiol 2002;90:563-565.
8. Burke AP, Virmani R. Cardiac myxoma: a clinicopathologic study. Am J Clin Pathol 1993;100:671-680.
9. Dishop MK, O'Connor WN, Abraham S, Cottrill CM. Primary cardiac lipoblastoma. Pediatr Dev Pathol 2001;4:276-280.
10. Burke AP, Rosado-de-Christenson M, Templeton PA, Virmani R. Cardiac fibroma: clinicopathologic correlates and surgical treatment. J Thorac Cardovasc Surg 1994;108:862-870.
11. Gowda RM, Khan IA, Nair CK, Mehta NJ, Vasavada BC, Sacchi TJ. Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma: a comprehensive analysis of 725 cases. Am Heart J 2003;146:404-410.
12. Bittner HB, Sharma AD, Landolfo KP. Surgical resection of an intracardiac rhabdomyoma. Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:2156-2158.
13. Burke AP, Cowan D, Virmani R. Primary sarcomas of the heart. Cancer 1992;69:387-395.
14. Kurian KC, Weisshaar D, Parekh H, Berry GJ, Reitz B. Primary cardiac angiosarcoma: case report and review of the literature. Cardiovasc Pathol 2006;15:110-112, Apr;103(4):655-664.
15. Bussani R, De-Giorgio F, Abbate A, Silvestri F. Cardiac metastases. J Clin Pathol 2007;60:27-34.