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. 1989 Jan;44(1):78–79. doi: 10.1136/thx.44.1.78

Primary cardiac angiosarcoma causing rupture of the heart and spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax.

A J Lobo 1, R J Butland 1, S Stewart 1, J M Shneerson 1
PMCID: PMC461673  PMID: 2928994

Abstract

A patient with a primary cardiac angiosarcoma developed two previously unreported manifestations: cardiac rupture, which has not been reported with any primary cardiac tumour; and spontaneous pneumothorax, which is well recognised with other tumours but has not been reported with a cardiac angiosarcoma.

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