Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor of the Heart

Overview

Journal Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann

Specialties Cardiology & Vascular Diseases
Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2006 Sep 29

PMID 17005894

Citations 4

Authors

Mesbah Rahman

Deborah S Cook

Gethin Ellis

Peter A OKeefe

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Abstract

A 32-year-old man presented with dyspnea, chest pain, palpitations and ankle edema and was found to have a tumor involving the heart. This was diagnosed as malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, a rare sarcoma of the heart. Immunohistochemistry was utilized to establish the diagnosis. The details of the patient's clinical course, and imaging findings with morphological and immunohistochemistry data are reported.

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