Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma with Unusual Cardiac Metastasis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Overview

Journal Case Rep Cardiol

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2017 Aug 29

PMID 28845314

Authors

Abhinav Tiwari

Bhavana Siddegowda Bangalore

Himani Sharma

Zaid Ammari

Mohammad S Khan

Zubair Khan

Hermann Simo

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Abstract

Alveolar soft part sarcoma is a very uncommon soft tissue malignancy which accounts for <1% of soft tissue sarcoma. It is a malignant and highly vascular tumor arising most commonly in the musculature of the lower extremities, with metastasis primarily to the lungs, bones, and brain. Cardiac metastasis is very rare and only 5 cases have been reported in the literature so far. We report a case of a young woman with a history of surgically resected alveolar soft part sarcoma of left thigh who presented with persistent dry cough and was found to have a cardiac mass, which on biopsy proved to be alveolar soft part sarcoma.

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