Primary angiosarcoma of the lung presenting as intractable hemoptysis.
Angiosarcomas are rare tumors, and primary pulmonary location has only been reported in very few cases. In the present report a patient with severe, intractable hemoptysis, demanding pneumonectomy, was found to have a single, small angiosarcoma eroding a large bronchus. No sign of tumor-spread to other organs was detected. A review is made of previous reports of angiosarcomas of the lung, and the differential diagnoses are discussed.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged