A previously healthy 70 year old woman was admitted for fatigue and dyspnoea on exertion and cough. A two dimensional echocardiography revealed a mass in the right atrium, which obstructed filling and infiltrated the cardiac chamber wall. Postsurgical histological examination revealed an unusual tumour with prevalent myoid glomangiopericytoma-type and haemangiopericytoma-like patterns. Mitosis ...

INTRODUCTION Low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (LG-ESS) is a malignant intrauterine tumor that rarely presents with distant metastasis. Simultaneous lung and cardiac metastases from LG-ESS is also an extremely rare event. CASE PRESENTATION A 42-year-old woman presented with dyspnea and exercise intolerance. She had a history of hysterectomy and left salpingoophorectomy. She underwent seco...

INTRODUCTION Cardiac involvement in malignant lymphoma is one of the least investigated subjects in oncology. This article reports a case of cardiac involvement in Hodgkin's lymphoma which presented as heart failure. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of an 8-year-old Afghan girl with Hodgkin's lymphoma. The disease presented with systemic signs and symptoms, including abdominal distension,...

The presence of intracavitary cardiac metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix is extremely rare. The diagnosis is made almost exclusively postmortem. Apart from causing intracardiac obstruction, it can present as pulmonary emboli and the prognosis is extremely poor. It is important to suspect this diagnosis in patient with recurrent pulmonary emboli. Due to the rarity of t...