Primary pulmonary artery sarcoma: intra-operative similarity to pulmonary embolus.
An infarcted right lower lobe, thought to be due to a thrombotic pulmonary embolus, was resected in a 48 year old man. Subsequent examination of the lobe unexpectedly showed the infarction to be secondary to a primary sarcoma of the pulmonary artery.
Berg
G A
GA
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Hamid
B N
BN
Kenyon
W E
WE
Drakeley
M J
MJ
D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy