Cardiac metastasis of synovial sarcoma presenting with superior vena cava syndrome

Cardiac metastasis of synovial sarcoma presenting with superior vena cava syndrome

Intracardiac malignancies are most commonly metastatic cardiac tumors, and they are 20–40 times more common than the primary cardiac malignancies. Synovial sarcoma, an uncommon mesenchymal tumor itself, commonly spreads to the lung, but very rarely to the heart in the literature. Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) occurs because of the obstruction of blood flow in superior vena cava, mostly bec...

Antiphospholipid Syndrome Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Thrombosis

Askin Tumor Presenting as Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

Mediastinal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of Unknown Origin Presenting with Superior Vena Cava Syndrome (SVCS): A Case Report

Primary neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) of the mediastinum is a rare type of carcinoma. According to the literature, only five cases of this condition have been reported so far. In this paper, we present a rare case of mediastinal NEC of unknown primary site. The patient was a 34-year-old man with mediastinal NEC, who presented with chronic dry cough and a right-sided mediastinal mass one year p...

antiphospholipid syndrome presenting with superior vena cava thrombosis

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