ASYMMETRICAL HYPERTROPHY OF THE HEART IN YOUNG ADULTS

Abstract

Tumours of the heart and pericardium have evoked an extensive literature out of all pro- portion to their uncommon incidence and their relative unimportance as a cause of clinical heart disease." This opening sentence of Friedberg's chapter on cardiac tumours in Diseases of the Heart (Friedberg, 1949) fills a pathologist with diffidence in reporting eight cases that have been seen in the last six years in a series of 16,000 autopsies.