title: Primary cardiac angiosarcoma causing rupture of the heart and spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax.
abstract: A patient with a primary cardiac angiosarcoma developed two previously unreported manifestations: cardiac rupture, which has not been reported with any primary cardiac tumour; and spontaneous pneumothorax, which is well recognised with other tumours but has not been reported with a cardiac angiosarcoma.
authors.affiliation: Chest Unit, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lobo
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Butland
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Shneerson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000209:etiology*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000209:etiology*