Highlights the rare possibility of cardiac metastases and severe rhythm disturbances in patients with pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.
May prompt cardiac evaluation for arrhythmias in pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma; hypothesis-generating and leaves open questions on metastatic prevalence.
The epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare low-grade tumor of vascular origin that may arise at any site. However, lung and liver represent the 2 main locations. Symptoms of the pulmonary EHE are usually nonspecific and mild. Distant metastases of PEHE are frequent. However, heart metastases have only been reported in connection with primary EHE of the liver. We describe the case of a 15-year-old girl presenting with an abscess forming pneumonia and severe rhythm disturbances associated with an EHE of the lung. The untypical fulminant clinical course, the surgical interventions, and the involvement of the heart as a life threatening complication, eventually on the basis of cardiac metastases of PEHE, are emphasized.
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