n 1951, the feeling of frustration regarding the inadequacy f the antemortem diagnosis of cardiac masses was summaized by Pritchard (1) in a review of tumors of the heart: Tumors of the heart are rarely diagnosed before autopsy. urgical treatment of these neoplasms is virtually unheard f, and the present state of diagnosis is far behind the herapeutic possibilities. Several authors have wholehe...

Carney's complex is a rare autosomal dominantly inherited multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome that involves spotty skin pigmentations, recurrent cardiac myxomas, endocrine hyperactivity, pituitary adenomas, peripheral nerve tumors, testicular tumors, and ovarian lesions. We present a case of sudden cardiac death in a 40 year old female with a history of Carney's complex with recurrent cardiac...

Malignant cardiac tumors are rare, with an autopsy prevalence of 0.001-0.28% [1]. Benign tumors are more common than malignant, and most initial differential diagnoses for a cardiac mass, when first detected, involve benign lesions. An angiosarcoma is a malignant neoplasm characterized by rapidly proliferating, extensively infiltrating anaplastic cells derived from blood vessels that line irreg...

Introduction. Inflammatory pseudotumor is an uncommon entity, and its cardiac origin is exceedingly rare. Case History. A previously healthy 27-year-old man was found to have a systolic murmur during preemployment screening evaluation. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a 4 × 2.5 cm mass originating from the right ventricle (RV) outflow tract extending into the aortic root. A computed tomo...

Primary cardiac tumors are rarest form of cancer and the lipoma represent about 8% of these tumors. Cowden disease is a rare autosomal dominant disorder, associated to a germline mutation of the PTEN gene, characterized by multiple hamartomas and an increased risk of breast, thyroid and endometrial carcinomas. For the first time, we describe a right atrial lipoma in a patient affected by Cowden...

Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon, and papillary fibroelastoma is considered relatively rare compared to myxoma and lipoma in the primary cardiac tumors. We experienced three cases of fibroelastoma. The patients' age was 28-75 years, and one patient was female. Two patients were presented with cerebral infarction and cardiac ischemia although, the other patient had no symptoms. Echocardiograp...