Successful surgical excision of primary right atrial angiosarcoma
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Successful surgical excision of primary right atrial angiosarcoma
Primary cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare and aggressive tumor with a high incidence of metastatic spread (up to 89%) at the time of diagnosis, which restricts the indication for surgical resection to a small number of patients. We report the case of a 50-year old Caucasian woman with non-metastatic primary right atrial angiosarcoma, who underwent successful surgical excision of the tumor (with cu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1749-8090
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-6-47