Cardiac Tumors

Overview

CTs (cardiac tumors) are extremely uncommon. Primary cardiac tumors are significantly less prevalent than metastatic tumors, with a frequency of about 0.02 percent in autopsy series. The most common benign tumor is myxoma (50–70%), while angiosarcoma is the most common malignant tumor (30%), followed by rhabdomyosarcoma (20 percent ).

Cardiac metastases occur in around 10% of all cancer patients, but they are rarely clinically noticeable. They can, however, induce a wide range of clinical signs and symptoms that can be mistaken for many other more prevalent cardiovascular and systemic disorders. When a CT is suspected, echocardiography remains the first diagnostic approach. On the other hand, CTs commonly occur unexpectedly during an echocardiographic evaluation.