title: Cardial leiomyosarcoma with multiple lesions involved: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Leiomyosarcoma of the heart is extremely rare and may involve many symptoms. The outcome is poor and the median survival is only 6 months.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 43-years-old female patient complained of palpitation and dyspnea and was diagnosed as bilateral iliac vein-inferior vena cava-right atrium-pulmonary masses. Pathological diagnosis was leiomyosarcoma of vascular origin and she survived for 12 months after surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  According to the summarization of 30 vascular leiomyosarcoma cases with heart involved we can find that surgical resection is the basic treatment for cardiac leiomyosarcoma, and surgery combined with chemotherapy may be able to further prolong survival.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University Shenyang 110001, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University Shenyang 110001, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University Shenyang 110001, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Qingfu
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University Shenyang 110001, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Dalin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007084:Iliac Vein / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor
keywords: Leiomyosarcoma; cardiac tumor; therapy; vascular origin
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