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. 2012 Jun 27;2012:906109. doi: 10.5402/2012/906109

Table 1.

WHO classification of tumours of the heart [2].

Benign tumours and tumour-like lesions
 Rhabdomyoma
 Histiocytoid cardiomyopathy
 Hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes
 Adult cellular rhabdomyoma
 Cardiac myxoma
 Papillary fibroelastoma
 Haemangioma
 Cardiac fibroma
 Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor
 Lipoma
 Cystic tumour of the atrioventricular node
Malignant tumours
 Angiosarcoma
 Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
 Malignant pleomorphic fibrous histiocytoma
 (MFH)/undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma
 Fibrosarcoma and myxoid fibrosarcoma
 Rhabdomyosarcoma
 Leiomyosarcoma
 Synovial sarcoma
 Liposarcoma
 Cardiac lymphomas
 Metastatic tumours
Pericardial tumours
 Solitary fibrous tumour
 Malignant mesothelioma
 Germ cell tumours
 Metastatic pericardial tumours