The heart in osteosarcomas
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The heart in osteosarcomas | |
HEART: Metastatic Osteosarcoma: Gross natural color right atrial endocardial masses of tumor, heart otherwise appears normal. Image courtesy of Professor Peter Anderson DVM PhD and published with permission © PEIR, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Pathology |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Associate Editor-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]
Histopathological Findings
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HEART; Osteosarcoma. Most cardiac osteosarcomas have spindled areas in addition to differentiated osteosarcoma (note osteoid, lower portion of field). The patient was a 16-year-old boy with a left atrial mass; the tumor recurred in 13 months at the site of the chest wall incision.
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HEART; Osteosarcoma. There are atypical cells within an osteoid matrix.
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HEART: Right atrium. The patient was a 21-year-old woman with a history of osteosarcoma of the humerus resected 9 years previously. Note the relatively sharp demarcation between tumor and cardiac muscle. The specimen was a surgical biopsy of a single cardiac metastasis.
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