Korean Circ J. 2006 Nov;36(11):764-766. English.
Published online Nov 30, 2006.
Copyright © 2006 The Korean Society of Circulation
Case Report

Primary Cardiac Osteosarcoma

Jun Ho Bae, MD,1 Geu-Ru Hong, MD,2 Sang-Hee Lee, MD,2 Woong Kim, MD,2 Jong-Seon Park, MD,2 Dong-Gu Shin, MD,2 Young-Jo Kim, MD,2 and Bong-Sub Shim, MD2
    • 1Division of Cardiology, Dongguk University Hospital, Gyeongju, Korea.
    • 2Division of Cardiology, Departments of Internal Medicine, Yeungnam University Hospital, Daegu, Korea.
Received July 06, 2006; Revised September 07, 2006; Accepted September 11, 2006.

Abstract

A 52-year-old woman, who was suffering from aplastic anemia, presented with the clinical features of severe heart failure. The transthoracic echocardiogram showed a heterogeneous, huge mass on the base of the posterior mitral valve. We guessed that the mass would be a benign neoplasm and probably myxoma, and we decided upon surgical resection. After tumor resection, an unexpected result of the histopathology was a high grade osteosarcoma. The other studies that were done after we had the diagnosis could not reveal any evidence of metastatic malignancy.

Keywords
Cardiac neoplasms; Osteosarcoma


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