Abioye A A, Maolomo I M
Trop Geogr Med. 1975 Mar;27(1):25-30.
The post mortem specimens, protocols, slides and hospital case notes of 6064 necropsies carried out in the University College Hospital, Ibadan over a seven year period were reviewed. Cardiac tumours were found in 64 subjects (1.06%) of all autopsies and in 8.5% of all 752 malignancies that came to autopsy during the same period. Only two of these tumours arose primarily in the heart whilst the remaining were metastatic tumours. The right side of the heart was more often involved than any other part (31.38%). The tumour with the highest cardiac involvement was Burkitt's lymphoma with an incidence of 30 cases i.e. 8.24% of all malignancies; 0.48% of all necropsies studied; 53.6% of all Burkitt's lymphoma autopsied. The risk of associating the rate of cardiac involvement of any tumour with its index of higher frequency was emphasized in the light of the paucity of involvement in a more frequent malignancy (hepatocellular) carcinoma in this environment. Routine medical examination coupled with an awareness of the possible susceptibility of the heart to secondary involvement by Burkitt's lymphoma would aid ante-mortem diagnosis of intracardiac malignancy particularly in patients of Burkitt's lymphoma age group.
对在伊巴丹大学学院医院七年间进行的6064例尸检的尸检标本、方案、切片和医院病例记录进行了回顾。在所有尸检的64名受试者（1.06%）以及同期进行尸检的所有752例恶性肿瘤中的8.5%中发现了心脏肿瘤。这些肿瘤中只有两例原发于心脏，其余为转移性肿瘤。心脏右侧比其他任何部位更常受累（31.38%）。心脏受累率最高的肿瘤是伯基特淋巴瘤，有30例，即所有恶性肿瘤的8.24%；所研究的所有尸检的0.48%；所有接受尸检的伯基特淋巴瘤的53.6%。鉴于在这种环境下更常见的恶性肿瘤（肝细胞癌）受累较少，强调了将任何肿瘤的心脏受累率与其较高频率指数相关联的风险。常规医学检查以及认识到心脏可能易受伯基特淋巴瘤继发性受累，将有助于对心脏内恶性肿瘤进行生前诊断，特别是在伯基特淋巴瘤年龄组的患者中。
