Key result
Debulking surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy treat rare primary cardiac extraosseous Ewing sarcoma in a 9-year-old.
Why the study?
Extraosseous Ewing sarcoma of primary cardiac origin is an extremely rare pediatric cardiac neoplasm with limited reported cases.
This case report highlights a rare presentation of extraosseous Ewing sarcoma originating in the heart in a pediatric patient.
Supports multimodal therapy in rare pediatric cardiac Ewing sarcoma; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Extraosseous Ewing sarcoma of primary cardiac origin is an extremely rare variety among pediatric cardiac neoplasms. We report a case of extraosseous Ewing sarcoma of primary cardiac origin in a 9-year-old girl, treated with debulking surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.
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Buffoni et al. (2019) studied this question. Debulking surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiotherapy were used to treat an extremely rare case of primary cardiac extraosseous Ewing sarcoma in a 9-year-old girl.
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