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Despite combined treatment with surgical resection, whole brain radiotherapy, and gamma knife surgery, the patient with cerebral metastatic angiosarcoma from the heart experienced rapid recurrence and died 9 months after diagnosis.
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Cardiac angiosarcoma can present with rapidly progressive and recurrent cerebral metastases.
Cardiac angiosarcoma with cerebral metastases carries dismal prognosis despite multimodal therapy; leaves open need for novel systemic approaches in this rare disease.
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Jung et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Cerebral metastatic angiosarcoma from the heart (n=1). Surgical resection, whole brain radiotherapy, and gamma knife surgery was evaluated on Survival. Despite combined treatment with surgical resection, whole brain radiotherapy, and gamma knife surgery, the patient with cerebral metastatic angiosarcoma from the heart experienced rapid recurrence and died 9 months after diagnosis.
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