Anemic Syndrome Revealing Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Right Heart: About Clinical Case with Literature Review
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primitives’ cardiac tumors, rhabdomyosarcoma, MRI, pulmonary metastasesAbstract
Rhabdomyosarcoma is one of the most common primary cardiac tumors in children and adolescents alongside lymphomas. The diagnosis is based on a bundle of clinical, biological and histological arguments. Cardiac imaging, dominated by MRI, plays a key role in the tissue characterization of masses Therapeutic management is based on chemotherapy and the most complete surgical resection possible. We report the case of a rhabdomyosarcoma of the right atrium with pulmonary metastases in a 16-year-old girl revealed by a severe anemic syndrome with hemoptysis.
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