Case Report: A Rare Case of a Ventricular Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumor With Histologic Characteristics That Resembled a Primary Cardiac Rhabdomyoma

Case Report: A Rare Case of a Ventricular Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumor With Histologic Characteristics That Resembled a Primary Cardiac Rhabdomyoma

We present the case of a young male patient with an initial diagnosis of a rhabdomyoma that was surgically treated at a different hospital when he was 17. After a 2-year disease-free period, the patient presented another intra-cardiac mass. He refused surgical treatment and died 5 years later. Post-...

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Main Authors: Jorge Cossío-Aranda, Alberto Aranda-Frausto, Joaquin Berarducci, Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta, Laila González-Melchor, Clara Vázquez-Antona, Gabriela Meléndez-Ramirez, Javier Ivan Armenta-Moreno, Candace Keirns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects:
cardiac tumor
PEComa
perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasm
rhabdomyoma of heart
arrhythmia
cardiooncology
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.709328/full

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