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A publication of the Cardiovascular Imaging Department of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology
Uma publicação do Departamento de Imagem Cardiovascular da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia
DOI: 10.36660/abcimg.20230051i
Introduction Primary cardiac tumors are rare, affecting between 0.0017% and 0.28% of the population. Secondary or metastatic tumors, on the other hand, are 40 to 100 times more frequent than primary tumors. The primary sites that most often metastasize to the heart are the lungs, breast, malignant melanoma, and hematological tumors. Cardiac metastasis secondary to ovarian tumors is infrequent and, in the cases described, mainly affects the pericardium, with no intracavitary lesions described. Metastatic neoplasms can reach the heart by […]
Keywords: Brenner Tumor; Krukenberg Tumor; Neoplasm Metastasis