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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

Introduction Cardiac tumours are a heterogeneous group of neoplasia growing from the heart tissue or the pericardium. Primary tumours of the heart are rare, they only constitute 0.5% of all tumours. Of those, 75% are benign and 25% malignant.1 Most malignant tumours are sarcomas. Recognition of a primary heart neoplasia is extremely difficult due to the variable symptoms. Malignant tumours are usually rapidly progressive, while benign tumours, such as myxomas, may exhibit symptoms over many years. Symptoms are various, depending on growth, size, location, possible cardiac obstruction and disorders of the cardiac conduction system.1 The fourth