title: Malignant fibrous histiocytoma originating from right ventricular outflow tract.
abstract: A 70-year-old man presented with right heart failure due to obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract by a large tumor mass. The tumor was surgically resected as much as possible. Neither chemotherapy nor radiotherapy was given. The patient died of local recurrence and multiple lung metastases 6 months after surgery. The prognosis of this very rare primary cardiac tumor is generally poor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yokkaichi Municipal Hospital, Yokkaichi, Japan. tamenishi89@yokkaichihp01.jp
authors.forename: Akinori
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tamenishi
authors.forename: Yasumoto
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okamoto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D051677:Histiocytoma, Malignant Fibrous / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male