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PRIMARY SARCOMA OF THE HEART
Author(s) -
Gudjóansdóttir ÁSa,
Hägerstrand Inga
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section a pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-4184
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1971.tb01862.x
Subject(s) - autopsy , angiosarcoma , sarcoma , medicine , pathology
Primary heart tumours are extremely rare and have apparently never been reported in Sweden. At autopsy, we have had the opportunity of seeing a sarcoma of the heart with certain features of angiosarcoma. In this case the clinical symptoms had been blurred by a coexisting heart defect and thereby precluded demonstration of any relation between the cardiac symptoms and the tumour. Neither were laboratory data helpful in assessing the age of the tumour.