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Case reports

Primary chondrosarcoma of the heart

Department of Pathology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Cochin 682026, Kerala, India

Received 10 October 2007; received in revised form 27 November 2007; accepted 28 November 2007.

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Primary cardiac chondrosarcoma is extremely rare with very few cases reported in the literature. Most cardiac chondrosarcomas described in the literature are secondary. We report herein a case of 22-year-old man who presented with easy fatigability, which the general practitioner diagnosed as mitral stenosis clinically. Echocardiography showed left atrial mass, possibly myxoma. The histopathology of the excised mass revealed mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, confirmed by immunohistochemistry. Clinical and radiological studies did not reveal any other neoplasm.

Key Words: Cardiac chondrosarcoma • Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma