Cardiac angiosarcoma: an unexpected diagnosis

• Main Authors: Milton Roberto Furst Crenitte (Author), Mariana Domingues Galvão (Author), Fabíola Del Carlo Bernardi (Author), Leonardo Gomes da Fonseca (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare entity. The incidence through autopsy findings ranges between 0.001% and 0.03%. The disease usually presents with non-specific symptoms, although asymptomatic cases are frequent; therefore, diagnosis is unexpected and consequently delayed. The authors report the case o...