Frequency of primary tumors of the heart

Primary tumors of the heart are rare. Based upon the data of 22 large autopsy series, the frequency of primary cardiac tumors is approximately 0.02% — corresponding to 200 tumors in 1 million autopsies (Table I). 1 Frequency of Primary Heart Tumors Autopsy Series N TU % Lymburner 4 8,550 4 0.047 Shelburne 5 1,200 3 0.25 Pollia and Gogol 6 12,000 0 0 Scott and Garvin 7 11,100 0 0 Benjamin 8 40,000 12 0.03 Ravid and Sachs 9 1,888 1 0.053 AMA survey (1938-1 942) 10 480,331 8 0.0017 Straus and Merliss 10 1,550 3 0.19 Leach 11 6,275 1 0.016 Whorton 12 20,337 3 0.015 Amsterdam et al 13 5,000 1 0.02 Prichard 14 4,200 4 0.095 Saphir 15 7,889 2 0.025 Fine 16 18,328 23 0.125 Heath 17 3,914 1 0.026 Baumann and Clavadetscher 18 2,070 4 0.19 Wold and Lie 19 23,673 41 0.17 Fabian and Rose 20 10,261 5 0.049 Schanz and Schneider 21 26,980 21 0.078 Schwesinger et al 22 25,855 9 0.035 Guang-ying 23 7,423 4 0.054 Lam et al 24 12,485 7 0.056 Total 731,309 157 0.021 Percentage is based on the total number of autopsies performed (N) and the number of detected tumors(TU).