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SUBMITTER: Gupta P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4121765 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May-Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Indian heart journal 20131202 3
Primary cardiac tumors are rare with a reported prevalence of 0.01-0.02% based on pooled autopsy series. Although most mobile cardiac tumors arising from the interatrial septum and extending into the atria are thought to be benign myxomas, this may often not be true. Myxoid fibrosarcomas which in contrast to myxomas are malignant cardiac tumors often mimic the clinical and echocardiographic picture of atrial myxomas. We describe a rare entity of biatrial low-grade myxoid fibrosarcoma presenting ...[more]