Includes index

Cardiac Tumors: From Autoptic Observations to Surgical Pathology in the Era of Advanced Cardiac Imaging / Gaetano Thiene, Marialuisa Valente and Cristina Basso -- Cardiac Tumors: Classification and Epidemiology / Gaetano Thiene, Cristina Basso, Stefania Rizzo, Gino Gerosa and Giovanni Stellin, et al. -- Cardiac Myxoma / Giovanni Bartoloni and Angela Pucci -- Other Benign Cardiac Tumors / Cristina Basso, Tomaso Bottio, Gaetano Thiene, Marialuisa Valente and Gino Gerosa -- Primary Cardiac Tumors in the Pediatric Age / Massimo A. Padalino, Cristina Basso, Ornella Milanesi, Gaetano Thiene and Giovanni Stellin -- Primary Malignant Tumors of the Heart / Marialuisa Valente, Stefania Rizzo, Ornella Leone and Cristina Basso -- Echocardiographic Approach to the Diagnosis of Cardiac Tumors / Paolo Voci and Francesco Pizzuto -- Echocardiography of Cardiac Masses: From Two-to Three-Dimensional Imaging / Luigi P. Badano, Denisa Muraru and Sabino Iliceto -- New Cardiac Imaging Techniques: Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography / Massimo Lombardi -- Surgical Management of Cardiac Neoplasms / Francesco Santini, Mariassunta Telesca, Giuseppe Faggian and Alessandro Mazzucco -- Cardiac Metastases / Furio Silvestri, Gianfranco Sinagra and Rossana Bussani -- Systemic Therapy, Radiotherapy, and Cardiotoxicity / Chiara Lestuzzi, Gianmaria Miolo and Antonino De Paoli -- Novelties in Immunohistochemical and Molecular Study of Cardiac Tumors / Augusto Orlandi and Luigi Giusto Spagnoli