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Tumorsphere Derivation and Treatment from Primary Tumor Cells Isolated from Mouse Rhabdomyosarcomas
Published on: September 13, 2019
Cardiac rhabdomyoma
Gayathri P Amonkar1, Bhuvaneshvari M Kandalkar, Meenakshi Balasubramanian
1T.N. Medical College, Bombay Central, Mumbai 400 008, India. gpamonkar@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Primary tumors of the heart are exceedingly rare with a prevalence rate of around 0.01% in autopsy studies. A majority of primary cardiac tumors are benign. Rhabdomyomas are the most common of benign pediatric cardiac tumors. A newborn female infant presented with perioral cyanosis and respiratory distress. She deteriorated progressively. The infant expired, and at autopsy, dissection of the heart revealed a large tumor mass in the interventricular septum. Histologically, the mass showed the classic "spider cells," and a diagnosis of cardiac rhabdomyoma of childhood was established.
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