Primary Cardiac High-grade Myxofibrosarcoma Presenting with Multiple Brain Metastases: A Case Report

Herein we describe the case of a young patient who presented with a recent history of epilepsy due to multiple brain lesions; he did not complain about any cardiopulmonary impairments. The patient died as a consequence of hemorrhagic progression of brain metastatic disease. Regardless of a thorough...

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Published in:Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) CA), 2017-11, Vol.9 (11), p.e1866
Main Authors: Badaloni, Filippo, Pozzati, Eugenio, Marucci, Gianluca, Fiaschi, Pietro, Fioravanti, Antonio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain cancer
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Case reports
Dyspnea
Family medical history
Heart
Maternal & child health
Medical diagnosis
Medical imaging
Medical prognosis
Metastasis
Neurosurgery
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Oncology
Patients
Sarcoma
Tomography
Tumors
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Summary:Herein we describe the case of a young patient who presented with a recent history of epilepsy due to multiple brain lesions; he did not complain about any cardiopulmonary impairments. The patient died as a consequence of hemorrhagic progression of brain metastatic disease. Regardless of a thorough investigation, the heart tumor remained occult. Primary cardiac tumors are very rare entities. Most of these are benign, but approximately 25% are malignant, and the majority of these are sarcomas. Myxofibrosarcoma and osteosarcoma are exceptionally rare. To date, we find only small series of cardiac myxofibrosarcoma, and to our knowledge, this one exceptionally presented with multiple brain metastatic lesions without cardiopulmonary symptoms.
ISSN:2168-8184
2168-8184
DOI:10.7759/cureus.1866