[Cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma. Its echographic diagnosis]

Rev Esp Cardiol. 1993 Jan;46(1):49-52.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

We report a case of cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma whose initial clinical features were fever and palpitations due to documented ventricular tachycardia. Sequential two-dimensional echocardiographic studies pointed out the presumed diagnosis, showing intracavitary masses at multiple sites appearing within a short period of time. The postmortem examination confirmed the diagnosis of rhabdomyosarcoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Echocardiography*
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary
  • Male
  • Myocardium / pathology
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma / pathology