Key result
Technetium-99m bone scintigraphy diagnoses primary cardiac osteosarcoma, highlighting the need for comprehensive tumor biopsies.
Why the study?
Major therapeutic advances mandate early recognition of extraskeletal osteosarcoma, highlighting the need to review biopsy practices for unusual cardiac tumors.
Population
One patient with primary osteosarcoma in the right ventricular epicardium producing pericardial constriction
Design
Case report and review
Authors
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May guide preoperative evaluation of rare cardiac tumors; single case leaves open prospective validation.
Case Report (n=1)
Technetium-99m bone scintigraphy can aid in the preoperative diagnosis of primary cardiac osteosarcoma, and biopsies of such unusual tumors should include both hard and fleshy areas.
Schneiderman et al. (1984) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac osteosarcoma (n=1). Technetium-99m bone scintigraphy and biopsy was evaluated. Technetium-99m bone scintigraphy led to a correct preoperative diagnosis of a primary cardiac osteosarcoma, highlighting the need to biopsy both hard and fleshy areas of unusual tumors.
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