Population
24 patients with primary cardiac sarcomas (14 men, 10 women, mean age 46 years)
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
mean survival 16.5 months
Authors
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Supports multidisciplinary counseling on limited survival; leaves open prospective validation of grading in larger cohorts.
Primary cardiac sarcomas are aggressive tumors with a very poor prognosis (mean survival 16.5 months), where histological grading correlates with survival.
Donsbeck et al. (1999) studied this question.