Cardiac Sarcomas: Is Tumor Debulking Justifiable Therapy?

Cardiac Sarcomas: Is Tumor Debulking Justifiable Therapy?

During a 15-year period from 1982 to 1997, 4 cases out of approximately 12,000 open-heart operations were performed at our institute for malignant cardiac tumors. Three of these tumors were angiosarcomas and one was a high-grade spindle-cell sarcoma. The prognosis for all 4 patients was uniformly po...

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Veröffentlicht in:Asian cardiovascular & thoracic annals 1999-03, Vol.7 (1), p.52-55
Hauptverfasser: Biniwale, Reshma Manoj, Pathare, Hemant Pramod, Aggrawal, Nandkumar, Tendolkar, Anil Gangadhar, Deshpande, Jaya, Sivaraman, Amoo
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:During a 15-year period from 1982 to 1997, 4 cases out of approximately 12,000 open-heart operations were performed at our institute for malignant cardiac tumors. Three of these tumors were angiosarcomas and one was a high-grade spindle-cell sarcoma. The prognosis for all 4 patients was uniformly poor in spite of maximal tumor debulking and postoperative chemotherapy.
ISSN:0218-4923
1816-5370
DOI:10.1177/021849239900700114