[Various clinico-anatomic variants of heart lesions in lymphosarcoma]

In 457 autopsies of cases with non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma tumour cardiac lesion was found in 43 (9.4%) observations; 5 of them with a combination of tumour with post infarctional myocardial sclerosis were excluded from the analysis. The clinical-anatomic data from 38 autopsies were divided into 3 groups: marked insignificant and only microscopically revealed tumour lesion of the myocardium. No correlations between the degree of morphological changes and clinical-electrographic picture were found. The distribution of some clinical and morphologic features of myocardial lesion depending on the histologic tumour type is presented according to "Working Formulation", 1982. Myocardial lesion was noted predominantly in non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphomas with a high degree of malignancy.