Primary cardiac lymphomas may present under different phenotypes

Abstract

Primary cardiac neoplasms are uncommon and often present with nonspecific cardiac symptoms. Proper treatment can only be initiated after histological analysis of a surgical specimen. Two cases of primary cardiac lymphoma with various clinical presentations and different growth patterns are presented here.

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Heart neoplasms lymphoma B-cell non-Hodgkin

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