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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002;21:124-126
© 2002 Elsevier Science NL

Case report

Primary malignant mesenchymoma of the heart

Ali Kutsal^a, Selim Tansal^a, Hüseyin Okutan^a*, lhan Tuncer^b

^a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Süleyman Demirel University Medical School, Isparta, Turkey
^b Department of Pathology, Çukurova University Medical School, Adana, Turkey

Received 18 June 2001; received in revised form 10 October 2001; accepted 10 October 2001.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +90-246-2326657; fax: +90-246-2324510
e-mail: okutanh{at}yahoo.com

Primary malignant cardiac tumours are uncommon, and cardiac malignant mesenchymoma is extremely rare. A case of primary malignant mesenchymoma in a 41-year-old woman arousing from the left atrial septum, obstructing the mitral orifice by passing through it into the left ventricle is described. The tumour was fully resected, and adjuvant chemotherapy was applied, but the patient had died by tumour recurrence in 8 months.

Key Words: Mesenchymoma • Heart neoplasms • Mesenchymoma surgery • Cardiac tumours • Heart surgery

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