Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 54-64, February 2008

Cardiovascular tumor-like conditions

  • Dylan V. Miller, MD

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  • William D. Edwards, MD

Division of Anatomic Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Tumors of the heart may be neoplastic or nonneoplastic. The latter are the topic of this section and include hamartomas, heterotopias, cysts and inclusions, age-related growths, reactive proliferations, thrombotic lesions, and infections or infestations. Their importance lies not only in the fact that they can mimic true neoplastic lesions but also that they can, of their own accord, produce obstructions, arrhythmias, embolization, heart failure, and sudden death.

Keywords: Cardiac mass, Tumor, Non-neoplastic, Benign tumor, Thrombus, Cyst, Echinococcus

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PII: S0740-2570(07)00099-8

doi:10.1053/j.semdp.2007.10.003

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 54-64, February 2008

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