title: Metastatic osteosarcoma to the interventricular septum: an unusual presentation in a child.
abstract: Whereas primary cardiac tumors are reported in only 0.17 % of pediatric patients, malignant cardiac tumors are even less common in children. This report presents a 10-year-old child with relapsed osteosarcoma manifesting as metastatic lesions to the interventricular septum.
authors.affiliation: Rush University Medical Center, 1650 W. Congress Parkway, Suite 761 Jones, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA, anas_taqatqa@rush.edu.
authors.forename: Anas S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Taqatqa
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Kent
authors.forename: Sawsan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Awad
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005269:Femur; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; D008297:Male; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D054088:Ventricular Septum