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- Title
Primary Biatrial Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma.
- Authors
Tetsuro Uchida; Yoshinori Kuroda; Mitsuaki Sadahiro
- Abstract
Primary malignant neoplasms of the heart are rare. Cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma is the second most common primary sarcoma. We report a rare case of a 49-year-old woman with a huge biatrial cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma treated by performing surgical resection followed by salvage chemotherapy for local recurrence. Cardiac sarcoma that occupy both atria are extremely rare. Although the prognosis of cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma is dismal, surgical resection should be recommended as a first line therapy to clarify the diagnosis and to relieve symptoms associated with the tumor.
- Subjects
RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; HEART tumors; SURGICAL excision; HEART atrium; SARCOMA; CANCER
- Publication
Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2020, Vol 35, Issue 3, p399
- ISSN
0102-7638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21470/1678-9741-2018-0414