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Two cases of cardiac sarcoma treated with right-side heart sarcoma resection demonstrated a histologically documented tendency to metastasis and high fatal risk.
Case Report (n=2)
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Cardiac sarcomas are rare, highly fatal tumors that often present late with metastases, making diagnosis and treatment challenging.
Emphasizes caution with resection alone given metastatic risk; leaves open optimal multimodal strategies for cardiac sarcoma.
Cardiac sarcomas are malignant tumors that almost always have a short and fatal course, making the diagnosis challenging. In most patients, the diagnosis is late, and survival is limited, mainly due to previously existing and undetected metastases. The therapeutic approach includes surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, alone or in combination, but because the tumor is rare there are no randomized studies to guide treatment. We report 2 cases of cardiac sarcoma in which a right-side heart sarcoma resection was performed in our hospital. These two tumors share a tendency to metastasis, histologically documented, thus being at high fatal risk.
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Doina Butcovan (2012) conducted a case report in Cardiac sarcoma (n=2). Right-side heart sarcoma resection was evaluated. Two cases of cardiac sarcoma treated with right-side heart sarcoma resection demonstrated a histologically documented tendency to metastasis and high fatal risk.
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