Multiple cardiac masses and distant metastatic foci in a patient with high grade pleomorphic sarcoma of the heart revealed by follow-up FDG PET/CT

Undifferentiated high grade pleomorphic sarcoma of the heart is a rare clinical entity and efficiency of FDG PET/CT in this tumour was not well studied.

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