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A young woman with a history of resected alveolar soft part sarcoma presented with a persistent dry cough and was diagnosed with a rare cardiac metastasis via biopsy.
Case Report (n=1)
This case highlights the rare possibility of cardiac metastasis in patients with alveolar soft part sarcoma.
May warrant cardiac evaluation in alveolar soft part sarcoma survivors with cough; leaves open incidence and management questions.
Alveolar soft part sarcoma is a very uncommon soft tissue malignancy which accounts for <1% of soft tissue sarcoma. It is a malignant and highly vascular tumor arising most commonly in the musculature of the lower extremities, with metastasis primarily to the lungs, bones, and brain. Cardiac metastasis is very rare and only 5 cases have been reported in the literature so far. We report a case of a young woman with a history of surgically resected alveolar soft part sarcoma of left thigh who presented with persistent dry cough and was found to have a cardiac mass, which on biopsy proved to be alveolar soft part sarcoma.
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Tiwari et al. (2017) conducted a case report in Alveolar soft part sarcoma with cardiac metastasis (n=1). A young woman with a history of resected alveolar soft part sarcoma presented with a persistent dry cough and was diagnosed with a rare cardiac metastasis via biopsy.
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