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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 461815, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/461815
Case Report

Primary Intimal (Spindle Cell) Sarcoma of the Heart: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

A. Ibrahim,1 A. Luk,2 P. Singhal,1 Bo Wan,1 A. Zavodni,3 R. J. Cusimano,4 and J. Butany1,5

1Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
2Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada
3Department of Radiology, Sunnybrook Hospital and University Health Network, North York, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada
4Division of Cardiac Surgery, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
5Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada

Received 12 October 2012; Accepted 17 December 2012

Academic Editor: Jahn M. Nesland

Copyright © 2013 A. Ibrahim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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