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Other Benign Cardiac Tumors

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According to the WHO histologic classification of tumors of the heart [1], benign tumors and tumor-like lesions include cardiac myxoma, papillary fibroelastoma, hemangioma, cardiac fibroma, rhabomyoma, lipoma, histiocytoid cardiomyopathy (or Purkinje cell tumor), hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes, adult cellular rhabdomyoma, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, and cystic tumor of the atrioventricular (AV) node.

All these tumor histotypes will be herein discussed, with the exception of cardiac myxoma and pediatric cardiac tumors (rhabdomyoma, cardiac fibroma, histiocytoid cardiomyopathy, and pericardial germ cell tumor) (see other chapters). In our “surgical pathology” experience collected at the University of Padua, about 20 % of primary cardiac tumors requiring surgery are benign tumors other than myxoma [2].

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  1. Pathological Anatomy, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padua Medical School, via A. Gabelli, 61, Padua, 35121, Italy

    Cristina Basso M.D., Ph.D., Gaetano Thiene M.D. & Marialuisa Valente M.D.

  2. Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padua Medical School, via N. Giustiniani, 2, Padua, 35128, Italy

    Tomaso Bottio M.D., Ph.D. & Gino Gerosa M.D.

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Basso, C., Bottio, T., Thiene, G., Valente, M., Gerosa, G. (2013). Other Benign Cardiac Tumors. In: Basso, C., Valente, M., Thiene, G. (eds) Cardiac Tumor Pathology. Current Clinical Pathology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-143-1_4

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