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Primary Cardiac High-grade Myxofibrosarcoma Presenting with Multiple Brain Metastases: A Case Report

Herein we describe the case of a young patient who presented with a recent history of epilepsy due to multiple brain lesions; he did not complain about any cardiopulmonary impairments. The patient died as a consequence of hemorrhagic progression of brain metastatic disease. Regardless of a thorough...

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Autores principales: Badaloni, Filippo, Pozzati, Eugenio, Marucci, Gianluca, Fiaschi, Pietro, Fioravanti, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5773267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375952
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1866
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author Badaloni, Filippo
Pozzati, Eugenio
Marucci, Gianluca
Fiaschi, Pietro
Fioravanti, Antonio
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description Herein we describe the case of a young patient who presented with a recent history of epilepsy due to multiple brain lesions; he did not complain about any cardiopulmonary impairments. The patient died as a consequence of hemorrhagic progression of brain metastatic disease. Regardless of a thorough investigation, the heart tumor remained occult. Primary cardiac tumors are very rare entities. Most of these are benign, but approximately 25% are malignant, and the majority of these are sarcomas. Myxofibrosarcoma and osteosarcoma are exceptionally rare. To date, we find only small series of cardiac myxofibrosarcoma, and to our knowledge, this one exceptionally presented with multiple brain metastatic lesions without cardiopulmonary symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-57732672018-01-28 Primary Cardiac High-grade Myxofibrosarcoma Presenting with Multiple Brain Metastases: A Case Report Badaloni, Filippo Pozzati, Eugenio Marucci, Gianluca Fiaschi, Pietro Fioravanti, Antonio Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Herein we describe the case of a young patient who presented with a recent history of epilepsy due to multiple brain lesions; he did not complain about any cardiopulmonary impairments. The patient died as a consequence of hemorrhagic progression of brain metastatic disease. Regardless of a thorough investigation, the heart tumor remained occult. Primary cardiac tumors are very rare entities. Most of these are benign, but approximately 25% are malignant, and the majority of these are sarcomas. Myxofibrosarcoma and osteosarcoma are exceptionally rare. To date, we find only small series of cardiac myxofibrosarcoma, and to our knowledge, this one exceptionally presented with multiple brain metastatic lesions without cardiopulmonary symptoms. Cureus 2017-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5773267/ /pubmed/29375952 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1866 Text en Copyright © 2017, Badaloni et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Badaloni, Filippo
Pozzati, Eugenio
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Fiaschi, Pietro
Fioravanti, Antonio
Primary Cardiac High-grade Myxofibrosarcoma Presenting with Multiple Brain Metastases: A Case Report
title Primary Cardiac High-grade Myxofibrosarcoma Presenting with Multiple Brain Metastases: A Case Report
title_full Primary Cardiac High-grade Myxofibrosarcoma Presenting with Multiple Brain Metastases: A Case Report
title_fullStr Primary Cardiac High-grade Myxofibrosarcoma Presenting with Multiple Brain Metastases: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Primary Cardiac High-grade Myxofibrosarcoma Presenting with Multiple Brain Metastases: A Case Report
title_short Primary Cardiac High-grade Myxofibrosarcoma Presenting with Multiple Brain Metastases: A Case Report
title_sort primary cardiac high-grade myxofibrosarcoma presenting with multiple brain metastases: a case report
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5773267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375952
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1866
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