Malignant Solitary Fibrous Sarcoma Presenting as Primary Heart Tumor
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This paper describes the case of a 42-year-old male patient with primary heart malignant solitary fibrous sarcoma presenting with cardiac tamponade. The patient received urgent surgery and adjunctive chemotherapy nevertheless he died 14 months later. To our knowledge, this is the first described case of a primary cardiac tumor causing cardiac tamponade to the point of needing emergency decompression surgery.
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