Population
1 patient with cardiac sarcoma arising from the posterior wall of the left atrium
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
6 months
Authors
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Rapid progression to fatal heart failure after excision cautions against optimistic expectations; extends sparse case-level evidence on left atrial sarcomas.
This case report describes the clinical course of a patient with a rare malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the left atrium who underwent emergency excision but died of heart failure 6 months later.
Mori et al. (1983) studied this question.
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