title: Delineation of pulmonary artery sarcoma with multiplane and panoramic transesophageal echocardiography.
abstract: A 38-year-old woman came for treatment with massive hemoptysis. A hilar density was observed on a chest radiograph. Transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated an intravascular pulmonary arterial mass that was studied in further detail with multiplane and panoramic transesophageal echocardiography. Surgical resection proved the mass to be a sarcoma arising from the main pulmonary artery. This case report demonstrates the utility of multiplane and panoramic transesophageal echocardiography in the study of intravascular tumors of the thorax.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Imaging and Hemodynamic Laboratory, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111.
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Esakof
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Pandian
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Khurana
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Bojar
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Daly
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery