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To the Editor: Secondary localization of intrathoracic tumors in the heart is often due to metastatic spread or neoplastic infiltration of veins. Renal, adrenal, and hepatic carcinomas as well as leiomyomas of the uterus can also reach the heart through the inferior vena cava. Fewer than 100 cases of intraluminal extension of benign smooth-muscle tumors into uterine and pelvic veins have been reported,¹ and fewer than 30 cases of intracardiac leiomyomatosis have appeared in the literature.²

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