Constrictive pericarditis caused by primary liposarcoma.
A 30 year old man presented with symptoms of constrictive pericarditis. Echocardiography and computed tomography showed a mass extending from the pericardium to surround the heart and penetrating the left ventricular apex. An unresectable pleomorphic liposarcoma arising from the pericardium was found at thoracotomy.
Lionarons
R J
RJ
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
van Baarlen
J
J
Hitchcock
J F
JF
D000328:Adult; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000209:etiology*