title: [Pulmonary artery hypertension due to tumor micro-embolism].
abstract: We report the case of a 37 years old woman with a past history of a chondrosarcoma who was admitted to hospital for acute pulmonary hypertension which proved rapidly fatal; autopsy confirmed that the etiology was tumour microemboli rising from a single cardiac metastases from her chondrosarcoma. The originality of this case report lies in the origin of the microemboli and the way in which they presented as a recurrence of the cancer.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Tenon, Paris.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mangiapan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parrot
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Antoine
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mayaud
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology*; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Hypertension artérielle pulmonaire par micro-embolies tumorales.