Primary Pericardial Synovial Sarcoma: An Extremely Rare Cardiac Neoplasm

Ammar Farook Chapra; Abdul Majeed Maliyakkal; Vamanjore A Naushad; Hanee S Valiyakath; Mustafa S Ahmed

doi:10.7759/cureus.14583

Primary Pericardial Synovial Sarcoma: An Extremely Rare Cardiac Neoplasm

Cureus. 2021 Apr 20;13(4):e14583. doi: 10.7759/cureus.14583.

Authors

Ammar Farook Chapra¹, Abdul Majeed Maliyakkal¹, Vamanjore A Naushad^{2

3

4}, Hanee S Valiyakath⁵, Mustafa S Ahmed⁶

Affiliations

¹ Internal Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
² General Internal Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
³ Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell, Doha, QAT.
⁴ Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine Qatar University, Doha, QAT.
⁵ Radiology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.
⁶ Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.

Abstract

Primary pericardial tumors are an entity that is infrequently encountered and may be a cause of pericardial effusion. Primary synovial sarcomas of the pericardium are even rarer malignant invasive tumors that are a challenge to recognize due to their vague presentation and difficulty in diagnosing non-invasively. Here, we report a case of a 48-year-old gentleman of South Asian descent, who was incidentally found to have pericardial and bilateral pleural effusions and subsequently diagnosed to have primary pericardial synovial sarcoma.

Keywords: cardiac tumor; pericardial effusion; pericardial synovial sarcoma.

Publication types

Case Reports