title: Acute vascular embolus resulting from metastatic endocardial involvement with synovial sarcoma: report of a case and review of the literature.
abstract: A rare case of metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (STS) involving the endocardium of the left ventricle of the heart is described. A 57-year-old man with a previously resected synovial sarcoma of the anterior abdominal wall presented 5 years later with an acute ischaemic arm resulting from tumour embolus. The treatment and outcome of the patient are outlined. Metastatic STS cardiac involvement and management of this complication are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Khoo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ngan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guiney
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lim-Joon
mesh_terms: D000009:Abdominal Muscles; D000208:Acute Disease; D001132:Arm / Q000098:blood supply; D004699:Endocardium / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D013584:Sarcoma, Synovial / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*