Differential diagnosis of heart tumours.

Abstract

Cardiac tumours represent a wide spectrum of neoplastic and non-neoplastic masses. Plenty of them, especially primary cardiac neoplasias, are rare diseases. Last revision of WHO classification introduced several changes in their histopathological assessment. Furthermore, an increasing amount of knowledge in molecular characteristics of the tumours bolstered discussion about the classification of primary cardiac sarcomas and primary intimal sarcoma of the heart became a hot topic of last years. This work aims at individual neoplastic and non-neoplastic cardiac tumours with focus at their characteristic histopathological features and main differential diagnoses.