title: A primary cardiac sarcoma with features of a desmoplastic small round cell tumor in an adolescent male.
abstract: Malignant primary cardiac tumors are very rare.Desmoplastic small round cell tumors are also rare tumors and,when present, are generally found in the abdomen. We report a case of an adolescent male who presented with chest pain,abdominal pain, and difficulty in breathing, who was found to have a primary cardiac sarcoma with several characteristic features of a desmoplastic small round cell tumor.
authors.affiliation: Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, NYU Langone Medical Center, 160 East 32 Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10016, USA. eleny.romanos@nyumc.org
authors.forename: Eleny C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Romanos-Sirakis
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chun
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy