Karagöz Özen Düriye Sila, Oztürk Mehmet Akif, Selcukbiricik Fatih, Esatoglu Sinem Nihal, Turna Zeynep Hande, Beyaz Pinar, Dervisoglu Sergülen, Ozgüroglu Mustafa
Department of Internal Medicine, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Case Rep Oncol. 2013 Apr 19;6(1):224-8. doi: 10.1159/000351123. Print 2013 Jan.
Primary cardiac osteosarcomas are uncommon tumors. They have an aggressive biology and hence poor prognosis. This report describes a 23-year-old male patient who was referred to our hospital with chest pain. Echocardiography showed a left atrial mass, and tumor excision revealed a cardiac osteosarcoma. Adjuvant cisplatin plus ifosfamide combination chemotherapy provided a disease-free survival of 9 months; unfortunately the patient died of metastatic disease thereafter.