Pulmonary artery sarcoma and chronic thromboembolism.
Pulmonary artery sarcoma is a rare and highly lethal disease whose clinical findings are often indistinguishable from those of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Partial improvement after thrombolytic therapy has suggested that thromboembolic phenomena may be superimposed on the tumor, but, to date, a well-documented statement of these events has not been provided.
Ramos
Simone G
SG
Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. sgramos@fmrp.usp.br
Salvatti
Luiz G C
LG
Cipriano
Federico G
FG
Roriz-Filho
Jarbas S
JS
Matos
Fernando D
FD
Rossi
Marcos A
MA
D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology