title: Malignant solitary fibrous tumor of the left ventricular epicardium.
abstract: Reports describing solitary fibrous tumors of the pericardium are rare. Surgical treatment was performed on a 49-year-old woman with a large pericardial mass. The mass was attached to the left ventricular wall with a broad stalk and was free of the parietal pericardium. It was apparent macroscopically that the tumor had invaded the left ventricular muscle. On histopathology, the tumor was diagnosed as a solitary fibrous tumor with low-grade malignancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan. staguchi@kmh.gr.jp
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: Atsuo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamabe
authors.forename: Ryo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Kenya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishizawa
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Rie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Irie
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; D008875:Middle Aged; D010496:Pericardium; D054364:Solitary Fibrous Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed