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Cardiac mass causes
Introduction
Causes by Organ System
| Cardiovascular | |
| Chemical / poisoning | No underlying causes |
| Dermatologic | No underlying causes |
| Drug Side Effect | No underlying causes |
| Ear Nose Throat | No underlying causes |
| Endocrine | No underlying causes |
| Environmental | No underlying causes |
| Gastroenterologic | No underlying causes |
| Genetic | Carney complex, LAMB syndrome, NAME syndrome |
| Hematologic | Thrombus |
| Iatrogenic | No underlying causes |
| Infectious Disease | |
| Musculoskeletal / Ortho | No underlying causes |
| Neurologic | No underlying causes |
| Nutritional / Metabolic | No underlying causes |
| Obstetric/Gynecologic | No underlying causes |
| Oncologic | Benign: Cardiac myxoma, Purkinje cell tumor, Hamartoma, Cardiac lipoma, Cardiac hemangioma, Pericardial teratoma, Papillary fibroelastoma, Paraganglioma, Pericardial cysts, Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum, Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, Hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes, Calcified amorphous tumor, Intracardiac blood cyst, Paraganglioma, Mesothelioma, Extramedullary plasmacytoma
Malignant:Cardiac angiosarcoma, Undifferentiated sarcoma of the heart, Cardiac leiomyosarcoma, Cardiac fibrosarcoma, Cardiac liposarcoma, Primary cardiac osteosarcoma, Leiomyosarcoma , Synovial sarcoma , Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of heart, Cardiac hemangiopericytoma, Primary cardiac lymphoma, Pericardiac mesothelioma, Mesothelial/monocytic incidental cardiac excrescences Metastatic:Melanoma, Lung cancer, Breast cancer, Renal cancer, Esophageal cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Thyroid cancer |
| Opthalmologic | No underlying causes |
| Overdose / Toxicity | No underlying causes |
| Psychiatric | No underlying causes |
| Pulmonary | No underlying causes |
| Renal / Electrolyte | No underlying causes |
| Rheum / Immune / Allergy | No underlying causes |
| Sexual | No underlying causes |
| Trauma | No underlying causes |
| Urologic | No underlying causes |
| Miscellaneous | No underlying causes |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]