Primary Biatrial Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma

Primary Biatrial Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma

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 loc...

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Main Authors: Tetsuro Uchida, Yoshinori Kuroda, Mitsuaki Sadahiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular
Series:Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Subjects:
rhabdomyosarcoma
heart neoplasms
sarcoma
heart atria
prognosis
female
middle aged
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76382020000300025&lng=en&tlng=en
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spelling doaj-6a45d927df9746c4a9597efecbbd01e12020-11-25T02:51:57ZengSociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia CardiovascularBrazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery0102-76381678-974135339940110.21470/1678-9741-2018-0414S0102-76382020000300025Primary Biatrial Cardiac RhabdomyosarcomaTetsuro UchidaYoshinori KurodaMitsuaki SadahiroAbstract 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.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76382020000300025&lng=en&tlng=enrhabdomyosarcomaheart neoplasmssarcomaheart atriaprognosisfemalemiddle aged
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author Tetsuro Uchida
Yoshinori Kuroda
Mitsuaki Sadahiro
spellingShingle Tetsuro Uchida
Yoshinori Kuroda
Mitsuaki Sadahiro
Primary Biatrial Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma
Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
rhabdomyosarcoma
heart neoplasms
sarcoma
heart atria
prognosis
female
middle aged
author_facet Tetsuro Uchida
Yoshinori Kuroda
Mitsuaki Sadahiro
author_sort Tetsuro Uchida
title Primary Biatrial Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma
title_short Primary Biatrial Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma
title_full Primary Biatrial Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma
title_fullStr Primary Biatrial Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma
title_full_unstemmed Primary Biatrial Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma
title_sort primary biatrial cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma
publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular
series Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
issn 0102-7638
1678-9741
description 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.
topic rhabdomyosarcoma
heart neoplasms
sarcoma
heart atria
prognosis
female
middle aged
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76382020000300025&lng=en&tlng=en
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