Acute vascular embolus resulting from metastatic endocardial involvement with synovial sarcoma: report of a case and review of the literature

Australas Radiol. 1997 Feb;41(1):49-52. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.1997.tb00469.x.

Abstract

A rare case of metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (STS) involving the endocardium of the left ventricle of the heart is described. A 57-year-old man with a previously resected synovial sarcoma of the anterior abdominal wall presented 5 years later with an acute ischaemic arm resulting from tumour embolus. The treatment and outcome of the patient are outlined. Metastatic STS cardiac involvement and management of this complication are reviewed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Muscles
  • Acute Disease
  • Arm / blood supply
  • Endocardium / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Heart Ventricles
  • Humans
  • Ischemia / etiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Muscle Neoplasms / pathology
  • Neoplastic Cells, Circulating*
  • Sarcoma, Synovial / epidemiology
  • Sarcoma, Synovial / pathology
  • Sarcoma, Synovial / secondary*