Primary Osteosarcoma of the Right Heart Ventricle and Atrium; a Case Report

Most primary malignancies of the heart, among them also osteosarcoma are found in the left and very uncommonly in the right ventricle. We report a 75-year-old patient with a primary osteosarcoma sited in the right ventricle occluding the pulmonary outflow. The diagnosis was made when the patient was...

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Autores principales: Forslund, Terje, Melin, John, Seppä, Anders
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21892265
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description Most primary malignancies of the heart, among them also osteosarcoma are found in the left and very uncommonly in the right ventricle. We report a 75-year-old patient with a primary osteosarcoma sited in the right ventricle occluding the pulmonary outflow. The diagnosis was made when the patient was alive, using echocardiography and computerized scan tomography examinations. Like in previous reports on such malignancies, it was far too late for surgical or other therapeutic interventions, and the histological diagnosis was made post mortem.
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spelling pubmed-31616722011-09-02 Primary Osteosarcoma of the Right Heart Ventricle and Atrium; a Case Report Forslund, Terje Melin, John Seppä, Anders Clin Med Oncol Case Report Most primary malignancies of the heart, among them also osteosarcoma are found in the left and very uncommonly in the right ventricle. We report a 75-year-old patient with a primary osteosarcoma sited in the right ventricle occluding the pulmonary outflow. The diagnosis was made when the patient was alive, using echocardiography and computerized scan tomography examinations. Like in previous reports on such malignancies, it was far too late for surgical or other therapeutic interventions, and the histological diagnosis was made post mortem. Libertas Academica 2008-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3161672/ /pubmed/21892265 Text en © 2008 the author(s), publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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title_short Primary Osteosarcoma of the Right Heart Ventricle and Atrium; a Case Report
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