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Because of their rarity, primary malignant tumors of the heart continue to evade clinical preoperative diagnosis. In five cases of malignant heart tumor that were reviewed from the diagnostic point of view, the clinical symptoms and radiographic abnormalities were found to be similar to those produced by more common heart diseases. The diagnosis of malignant cardiac tumor should be considered in a patient with heart disease who has (1) an unusual cardiomediastinal silhouette, (2) an atypical cardiac calcification, and (3) clinical or radiographic cardipulmonary findings which do not conform to the expected behavior of the common forms of heart disease.
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