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Primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis
BACKGROUND: Primary cardiac neoplasms occur rarely and most of them are benign. Malignant tumors including angiosarcoma are extremely rare and have a non specific clinical presentation and a poor prognosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a young male who was transferred to our hospital beca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174942/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17953738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-120 |
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author | Kontogiorgi, Marina Exarchos, Demetrios Charitos, Christos Floros, Ioannis Rontogianni, Demetra Roussos, Charis Routsi, Christina |
author_facet | Kontogiorgi, Marina Exarchos, Demetrios Charitos, Christos Floros, Ioannis Rontogianni, Demetra Roussos, Charis Routsi, Christina |
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description | BACKGROUND: Primary cardiac neoplasms occur rarely and most of them are benign. Malignant tumors including angiosarcoma are extremely rare and have a non specific clinical presentation and a poor prognosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a young male who was transferred to our hospital because of shock and multiple organ failure after a complicated pericardial biopsy. During the previous seven months he presented with recurrent episodes of pericardial effusions and tamponade. Chest computed tomography revealed a mass in the right atrium, infiltrating the myocardium and pericardium. During emergency surgery that followed, the patient died because of uncontrolled hemorrhage. Autopsy revealed the mass of the right atrium, which was identified on histological examination as primary cardiac angiosarcoma. CONCLUSION: This case highlights the difficulties both in early diagnosis and in the management of patients with cardiac angiosarcoma. |
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spelling | pubmed-21749422008-01-05 Primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis Kontogiorgi, Marina Exarchos, Demetrios Charitos, Christos Floros, Ioannis Rontogianni, Demetra Roussos, Charis Routsi, Christina World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Primary cardiac neoplasms occur rarely and most of them are benign. Malignant tumors including angiosarcoma are extremely rare and have a non specific clinical presentation and a poor prognosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a young male who was transferred to our hospital because of shock and multiple organ failure after a complicated pericardial biopsy. During the previous seven months he presented with recurrent episodes of pericardial effusions and tamponade. Chest computed tomography revealed a mass in the right atrium, infiltrating the myocardium and pericardium. During emergency surgery that followed, the patient died because of uncontrolled hemorrhage. Autopsy revealed the mass of the right atrium, which was identified on histological examination as primary cardiac angiosarcoma. CONCLUSION: This case highlights the difficulties both in early diagnosis and in the management of patients with cardiac angiosarcoma. BioMed Central 2007-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2174942/ /pubmed/17953738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-120 Text en Copyright © 2007 Kontogiorgi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Kontogiorgi, Marina Exarchos, Demetrios Charitos, Christos Floros, Ioannis Rontogianni, Demetra Roussos, Charis Routsi, Christina Primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis |
title | Primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis |
title_full | Primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis |
title_fullStr | Primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis |
title_full_unstemmed | Primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis |
title_short | Primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis |
title_sort | primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174942/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17953738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-120 |
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