Aortic sarcoma four years after Dacron graft insertion.
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the aorta developed in a 70-year-old man 4 years after he had undergone repair of a type B aortic dissection with Dacron graft interposition. The tumor surrounded the graft externally and involved the adventitia of the aorta near the proximal anastomosis. Clinically and radiologically it mimicked a pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta. Primary aortic sarcomas are extremely uncommon and only rarely reported in association with prior aortic graft insertion.
Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans Popper Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029.
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BS
Fyfe
C S
CS
Quintana
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M
Kaneko
R B
RB
Griepp
D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000601:surgery; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery