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Pericardial Sarcoma

MedGen UID:
1632612
•Concept ID:
C4687700
•
Neoplastic Process

Definition

A rare sarcoma that arises from the pericardium. The two most common types are angiosarcoma and synovial sarcoma. Patients present with symptoms related to pericardial effusion. [from NCI]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVPericardial Sarcoma

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Current clinical management of primary cardiac sarcoma.
Siontis BL, Leja M, Chugh R
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2020 Jan;20(1):45-51. Epub 2020 Jan 9 doi: 10.1080/14737140.2020.1711738. PMID: 31914831
Primary effusion lymphoma: current concepts and management.
Arora N, Gupta A, Sadeghi N
Curr Opin Pulm Med 2017 Jul;23(4):365-370. doi: 10.1097/MCP.0000000000000384. PMID: 28399009
Pathohistological diagnosis and differential diagnosis.
Tischoff I, Neid M, Neumann V, Tannapfel A
Recent Results Cancer Res 2011;189:57-78. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-10862-4_5. PMID: 21479896

Recent clinical studies

Diagnosis

Pericardial Sarcoma: "Invisible" on Radiology.
Wei C, Hu B, Peng X, Li X, Zhao Y, Peng D, Zhou S, Yu B
Can J Cardiol 2020 Apr;36(4):589.e17-589.e20. Epub 2019 Oct 12 doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2019.10.007. PMID: 32046905
Pericardial sarcoma.
Abdelnaby M, Almaghraby A, Saleh Y, Abayazeed R
BMJ Case Rep 2018 Oct 7;2018 doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-226112. PMID: 30297493Free PMC Article

Prognosis

Pericardial sarcoma.
Hagspiel KD, Oberson R
J Belge Radiol 1996 Dec;79(6):269. PMID: 9031544

Clinical prediction guides

Pericardial angiosarcoma after mediastinal irradiation for seminoma. A case report and a review of the literature.
Killion MJ, Brodovsky HS, Schwarting R
Cancer 1996 Aug 15;78(4):912-7. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960815)78:4<912::AID-CNCR31>3.0.CO;2-W. PMID: 8756389

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