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ISRN Cardiology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 906109, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/906109
Clinical Study

Primary Cardiac Tumours: A Single-Center 41-Year Experience

Christina Maria Steger,1,2 Thomas Hager,1,3 and Elfriede Ruttmann4

1Department of Pathology, Innsbruck Medical University, Müllerstraße 44, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
2Department of Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Thalkirchner, Straße 36, 80337 Munich, Germany
3Department of Pathology and Neuropathology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Hufelandstraße 55, 45147 Essen, Germany
4Department of Cardiac Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Received 22 February 2012; Accepted 28 March 2012

Academic Editors: A. Bobik, C. Hassager, and A. D. Szekely

Copyright © 2012 Christina Maria Steger et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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