title: Primary cardiac osteogenic sarcoma treated with heart transplantation.
abstract: Primary cardiac osteogenic sarcomas are rare malignancies. Less than 30 cases have been reported in the literature. Most of them have been found in the left side of the heart. We report a case of a primary osteogenic sarcoma of the left atrium in a 28 year old female. She underwent resection of the tumor and subsequently heart transplantation. To our knowledge this is the second patient with a primary cardiac osteosarcoma who underwent heart transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University Detroit 48201, USA. ERODRI@POL.NET
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Cruz
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Cintrón-Maldonado
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Bercu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*