Myxosarcoma: a rare primary cardiac tumor

Aditya K Samal; Hector O Ventura; Adam Berman; Chika Okereke; Yvonne E Gilliland; Gladden W Willis

Myxosarcoma: a rare primary cardiac tumor

J La State Med Soc. 2002 Nov-Dec;154(6):308-12.

Authors

Aditya K Samal¹, Hector O Ventura, Adam Berman, Chika Okereke, Yvonne E Gilliland, Gladden W Willis

Affiliation

¹ Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA, USA.

PMID: 12517027

Abstract

We describe the case of a patient with myxosarcoma of the left ventricle, a very rare type of primary cardiac sarcoma, who presented with features of acute pericarditis and discuss the management of this condition.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Autopsy
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography
Female
Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Heart Neoplasms / epidemiology
Heart Ventricles / pathology
Humans
Incidence
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Myocardium / pathology
Myxosarcoma / diagnosis*
Myxosarcoma / epidemiology
Pregnancy