Cardiac sarcomas presenting as metastatic disease.
We describe two patients with primary sarcoma of the heart in whom metastatic lesions were the first evidence of disease. One patient had a fibrosarcoma of the tricuspid valve with only pulmonary metastases. The second had a pleomorphic sarcoma of the mitral valve with renal and bony metastases. The possibility of a primary cardiac tumor should be considered in patients with occult metastatic sarcoma.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D006615:Hip; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000473:pathology; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000556:secondary*; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000473:pathology