Primary cardiac angiosarcoma in a 25-year-old man: excision, adjuvant chemotherapy, and multikinase inhibitor therapy - Bellitti, Renato; Buonocore, Marianna; De Rosa, Nicolina; Covino, Franco Enrico; Casale, Beniamino; Santè, Pasquale (Texas Heart Institute journal, 2013)
Keywords: Adult; Antineoplastic Agents - therapeutic use; Benzamides - therapeutic use; Biopsy; Cardiac Surgical Procedures; Case Reports; Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; Echocardiography, Transesophageal; Heart Neoplasms - enzymology; Heart Neoplasms - pathology; Heart Neoplasms - therapy; Hemangiosarcoma - enzymology; Hemangiosarcoma - pathology; Hemangiosarcoma - therapy; Humans; Imatinib Mesylate; Male; Piperazines - therapeutic use; Protein Kinase Inhibitors - therapeutic use; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit - antagonists & inhibitors; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit - metabolism; Pyrimidines - therapeutic use; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Treatment Outcome; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A - antagonists & inhibitors; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A - metabolism; Antineoplastic combined chemotherapy protocols/therapeutic use; sarcoma/surgery/therapy; chemotherapy, adjuvant; disease-free survival; heart neoplasms/drug therapy/epidemiology/surgery; prognosis; treatment outcome