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Introduction Primary cardiac tumours are a rare phenomenon, however, cardiac metastases from extracardiac primaries are found in 10% of all tumour cases, often at autopsy.1 Despite this, patients rarely present with symptomatic cardiac metastases, as they normally reflect diffuse metastatic spread of the primary tumour.2 We present a case of an isolated, aggressive, symptomatic intracardiac metastasis of a recently resected high-grade spindle cell sarcoma of the left thigh. Case report Figure 1. Apical four-chamber view on echocardiography, showing the tumour (T) in the right ventricle. Also shown is the left ventricle (LV) and right atr