Failure of medical therapy for pulmonary "thromboembolic" disease: beware the unsuspected primary sarcoma of the pulmonary artery.
Choong
Cliff K
CK
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, One Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Lawton
Jennifer S
JS
Moon
Marc R
MR
Damiano
Ralph J
RJ
D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*