A primary cardiac sarcoma with features of a desmoplastic small round cell tumor in an adolescent male.
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.
Romanos-Sirakis
Eleny C
EC
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
Meyer
David B
DB
Chun
Anne
A
Gardner
Sharon
S
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