| Metastatic Cardiac Fibrosarcoma Managed with Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (GKRS) |
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In Uk Lyo, Soon Chan Kwon, Jun Bum Park, Do Hoon Kwon |
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Department of Neurological Surgery, Ulsan University Hospital and Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea |
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| Abstract |
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Primary cardiac tumors are very rare. In large postmortem series, combined incidences of only 0.0017-0.03% for both benign and malignant sarcomas have been reported. Sarcomas are the predominant subtype of malignant primary cardiac tumors and account for over 75% of these malignancies. Of these, cardiac fibrosarcoma and its brain metastasis is even rarer. Using GKRS, multiple brain metastases from a fibrosarcoma originating from the left atrium of the heart of a 37-year-old woman were managed 5 times over two and a half years. This is the first report of a case of metastatic brain fibrosarcoma from the heart that was successfully managed with radiosurgery. |
| Key Words:
Cardiac, Fibrosarcoma, Metastasis, Radiosurgery. |
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