RT Book, Section
A1 Ramlawi, Basel
A1 Reardon, Michael J.
A2 Cohn, Lawrence H.
A2 Adams, David H.
SR Print(0)
ID 1144167880
T1 Cardiac Neoplasms
T2 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 5e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071844871
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144167880
RD 2024/04/16
AB Neoplasms  of  the  heart  can  be  divided  into  primary  cardiac  tumors  arising  in  the  heart  and  secondary  cardiac  tumors  from  metastasis.  Primary  cardiac  tumors  can  be  further  stratified  into  benign  and  malignant  tumors.  Between  10  and  20%  of  patients  dying  of  disseminated  cancer  have  metastatic  involvement  of  the  heart  or  pericardium.1,2  Surgical  resection  is  seldom  possible  or  advisable  for  these  tumors,  and  intervention  usually  is  limited  to  drainage  of  malignant  pericardial  effusions  and/or  diagnostic  biopsies.