title: [Cardiac tumors located of different areas: four cardiac chambers--four cases].
abstract: One can seldom meet heart as a place of the cardiac tumors process in reference to both primary and metastatic changes. While taking transthoracic echocardiography one ought to remember of possibility of cardiac tumour in this particular place. In this case report presenting four cases of the cardiac tumors authors underline that this type of tumor can be found in each cardiac chamber. We show varied symptoms of cardiac tubers: beginning from lack of symptoms, through unspecific manifestations (syncopes, embolism) till signs connected with generalization of the proliferative process.
authors.affiliation: Military Institute of Health Services in Warsaw, Central Clinical Hospital of Ministry of National Defense, Department of Cardiology and Internal Diseases, Poland. beata.zyczkowska@gazeta.pl
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Uziebło-Zyczkowska
authors.forename: Paweł
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Smurzyński
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ryczek
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chudzicka
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged