...Juraj Dubrava; Peter Martanovic; Marina Pavlovicova; Pavel Babal; Akhil Narang; Maria Mattioli; Nidhish Tiwari; Zhiyu Liu; Mariame Chakir Learning points Direct metastatic extension of the primary thyroid leiomyosarcoma (LMS) into the great cervical veins and right atrium is extremely uncommon...

... of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: [email protected] 2008 Abstract Cardiac leiomyosarcomas are rare and highly invasive malignant tumors. We report a 29-year-old female with mitral stenosis symptomatology due...

...European Society of Cardiology Primary malignant neoplasms account for 10% of all primary cardiac tumours and are represented by sarcomas (mainly angiosarcoma, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, leiomyosarcoma) and primary lymphomas. They usually infiltrate the cardiac walls, but may be also...

..., they are categorized as angiosarcomas, leiomyosarcomas, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, and myxofibrosarcomas. On cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), most sarcomas appear extremely heterogeneous and usually cannot be differentiated from each other. Some cases with angiosarcomas can be identified...