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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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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 Marucci, Gianluca 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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