Table 1.

Clinicopathologic features of primary cardiac sarcomas (n=5)

No	Age/sex	Site primary tumor	Clinical symptoms	Tumor size	Histological type	treatment	Metastasis/Outcome
1	30 M	Left atrium	Constant growth of tumor mass, no symptoms	6 cm	Myxosarcoma high-grade	Surgical resection + adjuvant chemotherapy (Adriamycin & Ifosfamide)	3 recurrences resected at 7, 47 & 64 months.
							Died at 64 months of post-operative complication.
							No distant MTS at autopsy.
2	53 F	Left ventricle+ pulmonary vessels+ pericardium	Paroxysmal dyspnea and cough	Multiple tissue fragments	Myxosarcoma high-grade	Tumor debulking	Died of cardiovascular failure at 3 months.
							No distant MTS detected.
3	81 F	Left atrium	Cerebral embolic phenomena	6.5 cm	Myxosarcoma high-grade	Resection	Died of breast cancer MTS at 2 months.
							Metastatic breast cancer as collision tumor with sarcoma.
4	28 M	Left atrium+ pulmonary vein	Hemoptysis	6 cm	Pleomorphic MFH	Resection	Brain MTS at 13 months (resection + RT), small bowel MTS 25 months (resection). Died at 29 months.
5	36 F	Right atrium	Emergency intracardiac bleeding	6 cm	Angiosarcoma	HTX after initial R1 tumor resection	Alive & well 3 months.

M, male; F, female; MFH, malignant fibrous histiocytoma; MTS, metastasis; HTX, heart transplantation; RT, radiotherapy.