Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.
2008 Dec;41(6):751-754.
Cardiac Rupture Induced by Angiosarcoma
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- 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea.
- 2Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea. drkhpark@yahoo.co.kr
Abstract
- Angiosarcoma is the most common primary intracardiac malignancy, but many published papers have reported it to be rather rare. The prognosis of angiosarcoma is known to be very poor, and the treatment of choice has been surgery until recently, but many centers currently tend to try multimodal therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In this report, we present a rare case in which an intracardiac angiosarcoma could have threatened the patient's life in short time by the rapid progression of the tumor, which caused right atrial rupture.
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