title: Primary osteosarcoma of heart with severe congestive heart failure.
abstract: We present a case report on a 54-year-old woman with extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the left atrium featuring severe congestive heart failure. We resected the tumor, which occupied the left atrium and had widely infiltrated the atrial wall, but the patients died of the tumor 9 months after surgery. This is to our knowledge the 32nd case of cardiac osteosarcoma ever reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe Rosai Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Minami
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wakita
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kawanishi
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kitano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakata
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shida
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery