Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Heart

Abstract

enign cardiac tumors are rare, with a rate of 0.001-0.03% at autopsy, accounting for 75-80% of primary tumors of the heart. 1 The remaining 20-25% primary cardiac tumors are malignant, the majority of them (95%) being sarcomas. 1 Cardiac echocardiography and computed tomography (CT) are useful modalities for detecting cardiac tumors, but histopathologic examination is needed for diagnosis. 2,3 Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) occurs mostly in the lungs B