Abstract
A 70-year-old man presented with right heart failure due to obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract by a large tumor mass. The tumor was surgically resected as much as possible. Neither chemotherapy nor radiotherapy was given. The patient died of local recurrence and multiple lung metastases 6 months after surgery. The prognosis of this very rare primary cardiac tumor is generally poor.
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