Primary cardiac angiosarcoma causing rupture of the heart and spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax

Thorax. 1989 Jan;44(1):78-9. doi: 10.1136/thx.44.1.78.

Abstract

A patient with a primary cardiac angiosarcoma developed two previously unreported manifestations: cardiac rupture, which has not been reported with any primary cardiac tumour; and spontaneous pneumothorax, which is well recognised with other tumours but has not been reported with a cardiac angiosarcoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications*
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Heart Rupture / etiology*
  • Hemangiosarcoma / complications*
  • Hemangiosarcoma / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pneumothorax / etiology*