Cardiac sarcomas are extremely rare primary malignant tumors of the heart. In this article, we present the case of a 70-year-old female, who was found to have a left atrial mass during a routine outpatient transthoracic echocardiography. Further investigation with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the presence of a bilobulated mass with heterogeneous enhancement. Left atrial myxoma w...

Background: Primary malignant bone tumors are heterogeneous groups of neoplasms, which affect mainly children and adolescents. The most common types are Osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma and chondrosarcoma. Elevation of sCD30 and sCD40L has been observed in lymphoma, leukemia and autoimmune disorders. Objective: To evaluate serum concentrations of sCD30 and sCD40L in patients with primary malignant b...

Sarcomas are malignant tumors arising from skeletal and non-skeletal connective tissue, as well the peripheral nervous system. Sarcoma is detected in majority of patients who have a primary retroperitoneal, extra-visceral, unifocal soft tissue mass. Liposarcoma leiomyosarcoma most prevalent histologic types retroperitoneal sarcoma adults. Most liposarcomas known low to mild grade tumors. Well d...

Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare tumors with an unfavourable prognosis. Complete surgical resection is currently the only mode of therapy proven to show any benefit. We report the cases of two patients presenting with features of obstruction and embolism and a presumed diagnosis of left atrial myxoma. At operation they were unexpectedly found to have large tumours raising strong suspicions of ...

Seven patients with malignant cardiac tumors were treated surgically in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery of the University of Tokyo between 1981 and 2000. Their treatments and outcomes are summarized and discussed. The ages of the patients ranged from 21 to 70 years old (mean: 49.5+/-15) and there were three males and four females. The histopathological diagnoses were hepatocellular car...

patients of all ages and have a reported prevalence rate of 0.001-0.03% in autopsy series and a rate of 0.15% in echocardiac series (1). The majority of primary cardiac tumors are benign. The most common primary cardiac neoplasm is a myxoma, which accounts for approximately half of all cases. Other benign primary tumors include the papillary fibroelastoma, rhabdomyoma, fibroma, hemangioma, para...

Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor (GNET) is an infrequent soft-tissue sarcoma, formerly referred to as clear-cell sarcoma-like (CCSLGT) and frequently reported in the literature sarcoma of tract (CCS-GI); it characterized by absence melanocytic differentiation presence nontumoral osteoclast-like giant cells (OLGCs). The current study reports a case 79 year old woman admitted emer...

Carcino-sarcoma is a malignant mixed mesodermal neoplasm accounting for less than 1% of all ovarian tumors. It an aggressive tumor, composed both epithelial and mesenchymal components. To the best our knowledge, 400 cases carcino-sarcomas have been reported in literature only 10% them are bilateral. In this paper, we report new case unilateral carcino-sarcoma 20-year-old adolescent girl with ai...

Contrary to primary malignant cardiac tumors, metastatic tumors of the heart are relatively common. Cardiac metastases are usually the immediate cause of death in about one-third of such cases. They may cause cardiac failure, pericardial effusion and arrhythmia, with cardiac failure being the most common cause of death as a result of restrictive ventricular inflow and outflow tract obstruction,...

background: primary malignant bone tumors are heterogeneous groups of neoplasms, which affect mainly children and adolescents. the most common types are osteosarcoma, ewing sarcoma and chondrosarcoma. elevation of scd30 and scd40l has been observed in lymphoma, leukemia and autoimmune disorders. objective: to evaluate serum concentrations of scd30 and scd40l in patients with primary malignant b...