Primary malignant cardiac tumours

Primary malignant cardiac tumours

These are extremely rare and less common than secondary malignancies. They include angiosarcoma, rhabdomyosar - - coma and leiomyosarcoma. Patients usually have advanced - disease when they are discovered, and they are associated with poor outcomes even with multimodality treatment (surgery and chemoradia tion). - -

Figure 59.31 Transthoracic echocardiography view of a left atrial (LA) myoma (arrow). RA, right atrium.