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.
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
R J
RJ
Lionarons
J
J
van Baarlen
J F
JF
Hitchcock
D000328:Adult; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000209:etiology*