Cristina Basso • Marialuisa Valente
Gaetano Thiene
Editors
2013
Cardiac tumors were once considered a nosographic entity of scanty interest because of their rarity, the intrinsic diagnostic dif fi culty and the therapeutic impossibility. They were mostly fatal or incidental fi ndings at postmortem. Nowadays they have become a topical subject because of the great advances in clinical imaging (echocardiography, magnetic resonance, and computed tomography) and surgical treatment and are a spectacular example of innovation in technology for in vivo diagnosis and therapy.