Sarcoma of the pulmonary artery trunk: report of a case complicated with hemopericardium and cardiac tamponade.
A 64-year-old woman presented initially with a metastatic spindle-cell sarcoma of the lung of unknown primary. She suddenly died nine months later from hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade caused by partial hemorrhagic necrosis of pulmonary artery trunk sarcoma.
al-Robaish
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Department of Medicine, University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton.
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Slatnik
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Nguyen
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D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*