Cardiac metastatic liposarcoma

Metastatic cardiac liposarcoma is extremely rare, with only 2 cases previously reported, to our knowledge; of those, only 5 involved surgical resection of right ventricular liposarcoma. The first such case in Japan involved a 61-year-old woman with metastatic liposarcoma of the right ventricle. Desp...

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Published inGeneral thoracic and cardiovascular surgery Vol. 48; no. 10; pp. 663 - 665
Main Authors Sugiyama, K, Okubo, T, Kamigaki, Y, Kin, H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Japan Springer Nature B.V 01.10.2000
Subjects
Female
Heart Neoplasms - secondary
Heart Ventricles
Humans
Knee
Liposarcoma - pathology
Liposarcoma - secondary
Middle Aged
Soft Tissue Neoplasms - pathology
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Summary:Metastatic cardiac liposarcoma is extremely rare, with only 2 cases previously reported, to our knowledge; of those, only 5 involved surgical resection of right ventricular liposarcoma. The first such case in Japan involved a 61-year-old woman with metastatic liposarcoma of the right ventricle. Despite emergency resection, the patient died of severe congestive heart failure 6 days after operation. Her history included surgery for liposarcoma in the right knee 11 years previously, although it is very difficult to predict that metastasis would proceed thereafter to the cardiac cavity. This rare case suggests, however, that follow-up including examination for cardiac lesions is necessary long after resection of the primary lesion.
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ISSN:1344-4964
1863-6705
1863-2092
1863-6713
DOI:10.1007/BF03218225