Tumors of the heart

Rapidly Growing and Recurrent Pumonary Venous Leiomyosarcoma Involving the left Atrium: Detected by Echocardiography with its Fatal Consequences - A Case Report

“…Cardiac leiomyosarcoma is a very rare entity that is found in less than 0.2 % of all cardiac tumours. At the time of primary diagnosis, it often shows advanced local 6,7,8,9,10 . In the all previous reports but exception for one, the tumour had not defined in the histological classification.…”

Fibrosarcoma of the Heart Diagnosed During Life

“…The others gave rise to increasing (Popp, 1932) or deformed (Beck and Thatcher, 1925) cardiac silhouette on x-ray examination, to metastases (Barnes et al, 1934), or to mitral-valve obstruction (Ravid and Sachs, 1943 ;Abbott et al, 1962). Retrospective pathological studies on primary malignant disease of the heart have shown that 25 out of 100 (Whorton, 1949) and 10 out of 30 (Porter et al, 1961) had pericardial effusion.…”