title: Sudden cardiac death caused by a primary intimal sarcoma of the left coronary artery.
abstract: Primary sarcoma of a muscular artery is extremely rare. A review of the literature revealed only one report of a sarcoma originating in a coronary artery. We report a case of fatal cardiac infarction caused by an intimal sarcoma originating in the left coronary artery which exhibited immunophenotypic features that were consistent with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Yanagido, Gifu 501-1194, Japan.
authors.forename: Wei-Xiong
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Cai-rong
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Jun-hong
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bunai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000473:pathology*; D017539:Tunica Intima / Q000473:pathology*; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*
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