Primary cardiac myofibroblastic sarcoma, case report and review of diagnosis and treatment of cardiac tumors

ABSTRACT

Primary cardiac tumors are rare entities with a frequency between 0.0017 to 0.28. We report a 53 year old male with a primary cardiac myofibroblastic sarcoma that presented with a hemorrhagic pericardial effusion. A review of the literature is presented with a brief discussion of the clinical presentation diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant primary cardiac tumors