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Left Atrial Angiosarcoma: A Rare Cardiac Tumor at an Uncommon Site.

ABSTRACT: Cardiac angiosarcoma is the most common among primary malignant cardiac tumors in adults. Malignant cardiac tumors commonly arise in the right-sided cardiac chambers unlike benign tumors that commonly arise in the left-sided chambers. Cardiac tumors on the left side need to be carefully assessed for malignant features for deciding treatment strategy and prognostication. We present the case of a 62-year-old female with a large left atrial mass infiltrating the interatrial septum and adjacent myocardial wall. Histology was suggestive of angiosarcoma. Although a radical excision was done, the tumor recurred within 6 months of the postoperative period and she died shortly after the recurrence.

SUBMITTER: Poonia A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7307616 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Left Atrial Angiosarcoma: A Rare Cardiac Tumor at an Uncommon Site.

Poonia Amitabh A Mishra Rekha R Giridhara Priya P Arora Yogendra Kumar YK

Journal of cardiovascular echography 20200101 1

Cardiac angiosarcoma is the most common among primary malignant cardiac tumors in adults. Malignant cardiac tumors commonly arise in the right-sided cardiac chambers unlike benign tumors that commonly arise in the left-sided chambers. Cardiac tumors on the left side need to be carefully assessed for malignant features for deciding treatment strategy and prognostication. We present the case of a 62-year-old female with a large left atrial mass infiltrating the interatrial septum and adjacent myoc ...[more]

PMID: 32766106

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