A primary cardiac sarcoma with features of a desmoplastic small round cell tumor in an adolescent male.

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol

Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, NYU Langone Medical Center, 160 East 32 Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10016, USA.

Published: April 2010

Malignant primary cardiac tumors are very rare.Desmoplastic small round cell tumors are also rare tumors and,when present, are generally found in the abdomen. We report a case of an adolescent male who presented with chest pain,abdominal pain, and difficulty in breathing, who was found to have a primary cardiac sarcoma with several characteristic features of a desmoplastic small round cell tumor.

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