Selected aspects of cardiac tumors in infancy and childhood

Considerable literature concerning cardiac tumors in infancy and childhood has accumulated summarizing the prevalence, histologic types, clinical pres entation and outcome, and changing imaging algorithms [1, 7, 10, 14, 20, 24 , 33, 37, 43, 48, 57, 58, 60-62, 67, 69, 70, 90, 105, 106, 110, 124, 139, 1 40, 142, 143, 149]. In this review, we focus on selected aspects of cardiac tumors in the neonate, infant, and child, with an emphasis on imaging moda lities [6, 13, 15, 18, 21-23, 60, 71, 77, 80, 92, 98, 99, 103, 107, 112, 11 4, 119, 146]. Various types of primary cardiac tumors in childhood are disc ussed in this article.