[Diagnostic difficulties in angiosarcoma of the pulmonary artery with hemoptysis].
Intimal sarcomas growing from the pulmonary trunk or branches of the pulmonary artery, are rare tumours in which the diagnosis is most often made at autopsy or during a thoracotomy. Usually the clinical pictures is non specific resembling a severe pulmonary embolus which is resistant of all treatment. With the help of new imaging techniques, a pre-operative diagnosis is made in more than half the cases. When there is a tumour which is relatively localised and without endoluminal invasion, as in the observation reported here, the diagnosis rests on the histology from the operative specimen.
D000792:Angiography; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D017539:Tunica Intima / Q000473:pathology; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery
Difficultés diagnostiques d'une forme hémoptoïque d'angiosarcome de l'artère pulmonaire.