Primary tricuspid valve intimal sarcoma found in chest wall and lung tumors

Abstract

A 50-year-old man with a primary tricuspid valve intimal sarcoma and right ventricular and pulmonary arterial tumors with metastases to the chest wall and lung, confirmed on plain radiographs initially, presented with a cough. He underwent palliative complete removal of the cardiac tumor and partial removal of the right pulmonary arterial tumor with tricuspid valve replacement, to avoid sudden death caused by tumor embolization and to definitively diagnose the cardiac tumor. The cardiac tumor arose from the tricuspid valve leaflets. Nine months postoperatively, the patient died secondary to fatal progression of the pulmonary arterial and lung tumors.