title: Surgical experience for the pulmonary artery sarcoma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pulmonary sarcoma arising from the pulmonary artery is a rare disease and its prognosis is disastrous.
  
  
  METHODS
  Five patients who underwent surgery for pulmonary artery sarcoma were reviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All patients except one were initially diagnosed with pulmonary embolism. One patient with preoperative profound shock could not wean from cardiopulmonary bypass. Two patients are still surviving for 36 and 30 months, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Early diagnosis and complete surgical resection is perhaps the best way to improve patients with pulmonary artery sarcoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. ayakom@hbhc.jp
authors.forename: Ayako
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maruo
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okita
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Teruo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tobe
authors.forename: Nobuhiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanimura
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*