title: Primary malignant cardiac tumors.
abstract: Our experience with primary malignant cardiac tumors is reviewed. Six adult patients were treated surgically during a 10-year period. A preoperative diagnosis of cardiac "tumor" was established in all cases by means of echocardiography. Surgery was possible in each case. Adjuvant therapy was also used. All patients died between 3 weeks and 43 months from the first operation. The importance of an aggressive surgical attitude and the role of adjuvant therapy is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sahlgren's University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lepore
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Larsson
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bugge
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wallentin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging