title: Primary cardiac angiosarcoma of left atrium.
abstract: Cardiac angiosarcoma usually arises from the right atrium. We report an extremely rare case of primary angiosarcoma originating from the left atrium in a 70-year-old woman. This represents the ninth reported case of left-sided cardiac angiosarcoma in the English literature. Analysis of all nine cases shows that this malignant neoplasm occurs more in female patients with a mean age of 60 years, unlike the right-sided one which typically affects male patients in their early 40s. The prognosis of this tumor is extremely poor with life expectancy lying between 3 to 34 months despite early diagnosis by imaging and multimodality treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong. callykalai@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Cally K L
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Au
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans