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Images in cardiology
Primary pericardial malignant fibrosarcoma presenting as sudden onset of substernal pain
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A malignant fibrosarcoma originating from pericardium is quite rare. A 30-year-old man was hospitalised for sudden-onset severe, substernal and pleuritic chest pain after strenuous exercise. Transthoracic echocardiography (panel A) showed a large amount of pericardial effusion and a multiple-echogenic mass (arrows) attached …