[Pathology of primary cardiac tumors]

Abstract

Primary heart neoplasms are rare and poorly known by general pathologists. However, they are not exceptionally encountered in pathology laboratories having a recruitment of cardiac surgery specimens. About 80 % of them are benign tumors and 20 % are malignant tumors. Some tumors are specific to the heart or have characteristics when they grow in the heart, including myxoma and papillary fibroelastoma. The classification currently in use is the 4th edition of the WHO classification of heart tumors published in 2015, which takes into account the evolution of knowledge in the field of sarcomas, but which does not yet recognize cardiac intimal sarcoma. recently individualized in its intracardiac location.

Keywords: Anatomie pathologique; Cardiac myxoma; Fibroélastome papillaire; Heart neoplasms; Intimal sarcoma; Myxome cardiaque; Papillary fibroelastoma; Sarcome intimal; Surgical pathology; Tumeur du cœur.