Primary cardiac angiosarcoma causing rupture of the heart and spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax.
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.
Lobo
A J
AJ
Chest Unit, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge.
Butland
R J
RJ
Stewart
S
S
Shneerson
J M
JM
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*