title: Something inside the heart: a myxoid liposarcoma with cardiac involvement.
abstract: A 70-year-old man presented with dry cough, dyspnea and fatigue. Physical examination revealed only a grade 3 heart murmur. The chest X-ray showed bilateral nodular opacities. A CT scan revealed several nodular masses in both lungs, pleura and abdomen, as well as a similar lesion inside the left ventricle. Echocardiography revealed not only the pedunculated nature of this lesion, but also infiltration of the ventricular wall. Biopsy showed it to be a myxoid liposarcoma. Since the disease was already widespread, and given the characteristics of the intraventricular mass, only palliative measures were prescribed.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Medicina Interna 1, Hospital de São Teotónio, Viseu, Portugal. pribeiromd@gmail.com
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lemos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vaz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Correia
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Girão
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Henriques
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D018208:Liposarcoma, Myxoid / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male