Key result
Cardiac metastases are ~30 times more prevalent than primary cardiac tumors.
Why the study?
Primary cardiac tumors are rare and include diverse benign and malignant types, necessitating evaluation of imaging modalities for assessment.
This review discusses the use of echocardiography, multidetector CT, and MR imaging for the assessment of rare primary and more common metastatic cardiac tumors.
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Multimodality imaging aids cardiac tumor assessment; leaves open standardized protocols for rare primaries.
Kumiko Hirata (2013) conducted a review in Cardiac tumors. Imaging modalities (Echocardiography, multidetector CT, and MR imaging) was evaluated. Primary cardiac tumors are rare (0.001% to 0.03% prevalence in post-mortem series), whereas metastatic involvement of the heart is approximately 30 times more prevalent.
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