Case report: The diagnostic challenge of primary cardiac intimal sarcoma

Primary cardiac intimal sarcoma, an extremely rare cardiac tumor subtype, is often mis-diagnosed owing to its rarity and non-specific clinical and radiological features. We report a case of cardiac intimal sarcoma mimicking atrial myxoma in which the clinical presentation and multimodality imaging a...

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Published inFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine Vol. 10; p. 1089636
Main Authors Ye, Naili, Lan, Lan, Hu, Huijuan, Liu, Jinping, Xu, Haibo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 09.02.2023
Subjects
cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Cardiovascular Medicine
CMR
intimal sarcoma
multimodality imaging
myxoma
CMR
multimodality imaging
cardiovascular magnetic resonance
intimal sarcoma
myxoma
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Summary:Primary cardiac intimal sarcoma, an extremely rare cardiac tumor subtype, is often mis-diagnosed owing to its rarity and non-specific clinical and radiological features. We report a case of cardiac intimal sarcoma mimicking atrial myxoma in which the clinical presentation and multimodality imaging are described in detail, and diagnostic challenges are highlighted.
Bibliography:Reviewed by: Abdallah Al-Mohammad, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom; Christian Cadeddu Dessalvi, University of Cagliari, Italy
These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship
This article was submitted to Cardio-Oncology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Edited by: Reto Asmis, Wake Forest University, United States
ISSN:2297-055X
2297-055X
DOI:10.3389/fcvm.2023.1089636