Extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma of primary cardiac origin

Pediatr Cardiol. 1994 Jul-Aug;15(4):207-8. doi: 10.1007/BF00800678.

Abstract

A 13-year-old boy presented with cardiac tamponade. Echocardiography revealed a large mass extending from the right and left ventricles into a large pericardial effusion. Pathology confirmed the first reported case of a primary cardiac extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cardiac Tamponade / diagnostic imaging
  • Cardiac Tamponade / pathology
  • Cardiac Tamponade / surgery
  • Echocardiography*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Sarcoma, Ewing / diagnostic imaging*
  • Sarcoma, Ewing / pathology
  • Sarcoma, Ewing / surgery