[Demonstration of accelerated growth of heart sarcoma using imaging techniques]

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2000 Jul;53(7):1005-7.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

We report the case of a patient presenting a sarcoma of interatrial septum with an accelerated growth and a fulminate clinical course documented by non-invasive image diagnostic techniques, habitual in the cardiologic practice. The natural history of some cardiac malignant tumours, as aggressive as in this case, explains the diagnostic delay, the difficulty to establish a curative treatment such as surgery and/or chemotherapy/radiotherapy and the awful short-term prognosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cell Division
  • Female
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Sarcoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Sarcoma / pathology*
  • Time Factors
  • Ultrasonography