title: Primary choriocarcinoma of the pulmonary artery mimicking pulmonary embolism.
abstract: Due to their rarity, primary tumours of the pulmonary arteries are often incorrectly diagnosed as more common diseases such as pulmonary thromboembolism and are seldom diagnosed during a patient's lifetime. Surgery or potentially curative chemotherapy may therefore be withheld. We report a patient with a primary choriocarcinoma of the left pulmonary artery, which was first suspected on a CT scan. The neoplastic nature of the obstruction of the pulmonary arteries was confirmed by positron emission tomography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trübenbach
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Huppert
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Farnsworth
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Feine
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Claussen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*