Spindle-cell sarcoma of the heart: A rare cause for a cardiac mass

Primary cardiac tumors are rare and are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage due to nonspecific symptoms. We report a 46-year-old female who presented to our institution with shortness of breath and was diagnosed with a cardiac spindle-cell tumor. Wide surgical resection is the cornerstone for the...

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Autores principales: Mehra, Sanjay, Ibrahim, Osman, Moshiri, Mariam, Cahill, John, Bhargava, Puneet
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Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27330605
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v7i4.792
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author Mehra, Sanjay
Ibrahim, Osman
Moshiri, Mariam
Cahill, John
Bhargava, Puneet
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description Primary cardiac tumors are rare and are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage due to nonspecific symptoms. We report a 46-year-old female who presented to our institution with shortness of breath and was diagnosed with a cardiac spindle-cell tumor. Wide surgical resection is the cornerstone for therapy for cardiac sarcomas. Our patient was considered inoperable due to the extent of the tumor.
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spelling pubmed-48995652016-06-18 Spindle-cell sarcoma of the heart: A rare cause for a cardiac mass Mehra, Sanjay Ibrahim, Osman Moshiri, Mariam Cahill, John Bhargava, Puneet Radiol Case Rep Article Primary cardiac tumors are rare and are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage due to nonspecific symptoms. We report a 46-year-old female who presented to our institution with shortness of breath and was diagnosed with a cardiac spindle-cell tumor. Wide surgical resection is the cornerstone for therapy for cardiac sarcomas. Our patient was considered inoperable due to the extent of the tumor. Elsevier 2015-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4899565/ /pubmed/27330605 http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v7i4.792 Text en © 2012 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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