Sarcoma of the Heart in a Child

Abstract

Malignant heart tumours are rare, and seldom diagnosed during life; such a diagnosis isparticularly difficult in childhood. Mahaim (1945), in a com- prehensive review of over 400 heart tumours, found 87 primary sarcomas, only five of which occurred in children under 15 years. Lisa, Hirschhorn, and Hart (1941), reviewing the literature, found 30 reported cases of secondary tumour involvement of the heart with only two examples of sarcoma in childhood.