Surgical Management of Recurrent Leiomyosarcoma in Heart

Leiomyosarcoma may occur anywhere in the body but rarely occurs in the heart or great vessels. Leiomyosarcoma may be managed by surgical resection with or without chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Owing to the high rate of metastasis and poor prognosis, a definitive treatment modality for leiomyosarcoma...

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Autores principales: Kim, Jong Duk, Kim, Jun Seok, Hwang, Tae Suk, Shin, Je Kyoun, Song, Meong Gun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24570864
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.1.35
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author Kim, Jong Duk
Kim, Jun Seok
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description Leiomyosarcoma may occur anywhere in the body but rarely occurs in the heart or great vessels. Leiomyosarcoma may be managed by surgical resection with or without chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Owing to the high rate of metastasis and poor prognosis, a definitive treatment modality for leiomyosarcoma has not yet been suggested. This case study reports the surgical management of the recurrent leiomyosarcoma of the heart and the great vessels in a 63-year-old woman.
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spelling pubmed-39282612014-02-25 Surgical Management of Recurrent Leiomyosarcoma in Heart Kim, Jong Duk Kim, Jun Seok Hwang, Tae Suk Shin, Je Kyoun Song, Meong Gun Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Leiomyosarcoma may occur anywhere in the body but rarely occurs in the heart or great vessels. Leiomyosarcoma may be managed by surgical resection with or without chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Owing to the high rate of metastasis and poor prognosis, a definitive treatment modality for leiomyosarcoma has not yet been suggested. This case study reports the surgical management of the recurrent leiomyosarcoma of the heart and the great vessels in a 63-year-old woman. Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014-02 2014-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3928261/ /pubmed/24570864 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2014.47.1.35 Text en © The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2014. All right reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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