Six-year survival after excision of cardiac malignant lymphoma

We report a patient with a postoperative survival period of 6 years after the surgical excision of a cardiac malignant lymphoma. A 35-year-old woman underwent total excision of the tumor arising from the left ventricular outflow tract. After the operation, she was treated with chemotherapy for 6 mon...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Annals of thoracic surgery 1998-11, Vol.66 (5), p.1810-1811
Hauptverfasser:	Takagi, Masatake, Kugimiya, Toshiyasu, Miyahara, Yoshiyuki, Hayashi, Tomayoshi
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult AIDS/HIV Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - therapeutic use Biological and medical sciences Disease-Free Survival Doxorubicin - administration & dosage Etoposide - administration & dosage Female Heart Neoplasms - drug therapy Heart Neoplasms - surgery Humans Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell - drug therapy Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell - surgery Medical sciences Pentostatin - administration & dosage Prednisolone - administration & dosage Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases Surgery of the heart Vincristine - administration & dosage
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Zusammenfassung:	We report a patient with a postoperative survival period of 6 years after the surgical excision of a cardiac malignant lymphoma. A 35-year-old woman underwent total excision of the tumor arising from the left ventricular outflow tract. After the operation, she was treated with chemotherapy for 6 months. She has been doing well thereafter without any medication. To date there is no evidence of recurrence.
ISSN:	0003-4975 1552-6259
DOI:	10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00720-6