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Primary benign cardiac tumours

Dr Yuranga Weerakkody and Dr Frank Gaillard et al.

Primary benign cardiac tumours, although rare compared to secondary involvement of the heart by malignancies of the chest or metastases, are much more common than primary malignant tumours of the heart. Tumours include ^1-2:

cardiac myxoma
- most common in adults
- accounts for ~50% of all primary benign tumours ^1-2
cardiac rhabdomyoma
- most common in children
cardiac papillary fibroelastoma
cardiac fibroma
haemangioma of the heart
cardiac lipoma
cardiac paraganglioma

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