[Surgical treatment of heart malignant tumors].
Peculiarities of surgical treatment of the heart malignant tumors were studied, up basing on analysis of 29 observations. Rhabdomyosarcoma was revealed in 9 patients, angiosarcoma--in 8, leyomyosarcoma--in 5, malignant myxoma--in 4, fibrosarcoma, chondrosarcoma and liposarcoma--in one for each of them. The peculiarities of excision of different tumors were depicted. Special attention was paid to the necessity of maximally radical excision of the tumor, demanding the additional surgical manipulations conducting in 8 patients. Mortality had constituted 35.7%. The cause of the death practically in all the patients was the pathological process spreading.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged