title: Cardiac metastasis of a malignant fibrous histiocytoma occupying the right ventricle and infiltrating the myocardium.
abstract: A 86-year-old woman presented with a cardiac tumor occupying the whole cavity of the right ventricle and causing right ventricular outflow obstruction. A percutaneous ultrasound-guided biopsy was performed and histologic examination revealed a metastasis of a malignant fibrous histiocytoma. Because of the extensive cardiac involvement and multiple pulmonary metastases, effective surgical therapy was not possible and the patient died soon after diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Kreiskrankenhaus Sigmaringen, Innere Abteilung, akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Tübingen.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wankmüller
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Seitz
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Seitz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology