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Primary cardiac lymphoma (PCL) is an extremely rare neoplasm and usually defined as a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma being exclusively located in the heart and/or the pericardium. It is particularly difficult to diagnose this rare disease due to its nonspecific clinical manifestations. The prognosis of this disease is poor. In this diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the patient finally died of heart failure after 2 courses of chemotherapy with CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone).
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Zhong, L., Yang, S., Lei, K. et al. Primary cardiac lymphoma: a case report and review of the literature. Chin. -Ger. J. Clin. Oncol. 12, 43–45 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10330-012-1095-5
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