Metastatic Pleomorphic Sarcoma to Left Atrium
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Metastatic pleomorphic sarcoma to left atrium
Although several thousand patients are diagnosed with sarcoma annually in the United States, metastases to the heart are very uncommon. In this case report, an overall low frequency cancer presents masquerading with common cardiac symptomology. This case illustrates the importance for detailed diagnostic cardiac evaluations and heightened suspicion by physicians to consider metastatic disease t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rare Tumors
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2036-3613,2036-3613
DOI: 10.4081/rt.2009.e1