Primary benign cardiac tumors
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Primary benign cardiac tumours, although rare compared to are much less common than secondary involvementmetastatic deposits. However they are more likely when a cardiac mass is seen outside of the heart by malignanciessetting of the chest or metastases, are much more common than primary malignant tumours of the heart terminal metastatic disease. Tumours include 1-2:
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cardiac myxoma
- most common in adults
- accounts for ~50% of all primary benign tumours 1-2
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cardiac rhabdomyoma
- most common in children
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cardiac papillary fibroelastoma
- considered the second most common 10
- cardiac fibroma
- haemangioma of the heart
- cardiac lipoma
- cardiac paraganglioma
See also
-<p><strong>Primary benign cardiac tumours</strong>, 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 <sup>1-2</sup>:</p><ul>- +<p><strong>Primary benign cardiac tumours</strong> are much less common than secondary metastatic deposits. However they are more likely when a cardiac mass is seen outside of the setting of terminal metastatic disease. Tumours include <sup>1-2</sup>:</p><ul>