Laura A. Cervantes-Molina et al. David Ramírez-Cedillo Italo D. Masini-Aguilera Jaime G. López-Taylor … Michel Machuca-Hernández Dulman O. Pineda-De Paz
Introduction
Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon. They have an incidence between 0.0017% and 0.28% corresponding to 17 and 2,800 of primary heart tumors per 1 million autopsies. Cardiac Myxoma (CM) is a benign neoplasm and represents the most common one among primary cardiac tumors in adults.
CMs have an annual incidence of 0.5–0.7 of surgically resected cases per one million; with the majority of cases showing sporadic appearance and less than 10%, a family inheritance pattern.
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