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Primary cardiac osteosarcoma with imaging that revealed no calcification

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Osteosarcoma is a rare primary cardiac malignancy. Calcification on imaging is crucial to differentiating osteosarcoma, but we encountered a case that was difficult to diagnose because imaging revealed no calcification. A 67-year-old man was admitted for heart failure. Echocardiography demonstrated mitral regurgitation and a mass in the left atrium. A cardiac malignancy was suspected. Computed tomography revealed no calcification. Operation was performed, and histopathological examination identified the tumor as an osteosarcoma.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sasebo Chuo Hospital, 15 Yamato-cho, Sasebo, Nagasaki, 857-1195, Japan

    Wataru Hashimoto

  2. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Koji Hashizume, Tsuneo Ariyoshi, Shinichiro Taniguchi, Takashi Miura & Kiyoyuki Eishi

  3. Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Naoe Kinoshita

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Hashimoto, W., Hashizume, K., Ariyoshi, T. et al. Primary cardiac osteosarcoma with imaging that revealed no calcification. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 59, 184–186 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-010-0656-1

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