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A 46-year-old female presenting with shortness of breath was diagnosed with a rare, inoperable primary cardiac spindle-cell sarcoma using multimodality imaging and core biopsy.
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Highlights a rare presentation of an inoperable primary cardiac spindle-cell sarcoma.
Alerts clinicians to rare inoperable spindle-cell sarcoma in dyspnea workup; leaves open management strategies for this entity.
Primary cardiac tumors are rare and are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage due to nonspecific symptoms. We report a 46-year-old female who presented to our institution with shortness of breath and was diagnosed with a cardiac spindle-cell tumor. Wide surgical resection is the cornerstone for therapy for cardiac sarcomas. Our patient was considered inoperable due to the extent of the tumor.
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Mehra et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Spindle-cell sarcoma of the heart (n=1). Diagnostic imaging and biopsy was evaluated. A 46-year-old female presenting with shortness of breath was diagnosed with a rare, inoperable primary cardiac spindle-cell sarcoma using multimodality imaging and core biopsy.
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