Cardiac sarcomas presenting as metastatic disease
Herhusky, M.J.; Gregg, S.B.; Virmani, R.; Chun, P.K.; Bender, H.; Gray, G.F.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 109(10): 943-945
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9985 PMID: 3840005 Document Number: 253613
We describe two patients with primary sarcoma of the heart in whom metastatic lesions were the first evidence of disease. One patient had a fibrosarcoma of the tricuspid valve with only pulmonary metastases. The second had a pleomorphic sarcoma of the mitral valve with renal and bony metastases. The possibility of a primary cardiac tumor should be considered in patients with occult metastatic sarcoma.