(1) Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Yanagido, Gifu 501-1194, Japan;(2) Department of Legal Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, 86 Xinjian South Road, Taiyuan, 030001, China;
Abstract:
Primary sarcoma of a muscular artery is extremely rare. A review of the literature revealed only one report of a sarcoma originating
in a coronary artery. We report a case of fatal cardiac infarction caused by an intimal sarcoma originating in the left coronary
artery which exhibited immunophenotypic features that were consistent with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation.