Radical resection of a pulmonary blastoma involving the pulmonary artery.
Pulmonary blastoma is a rare malignant lesion with a poor prognosis. We described a case of a 47-year-old woman with a large biphasic pulmonary blastoma, involving the left pulmonary artery. Under cardiopulmonary bypass, it was treated with radical left intrapericardial pneumonectomy and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Subsequent chemotherapy and radiotherapy was used. Three years postoperatively, the patient was clinically and radiologically free of tumor.
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Wenxin
W
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital of Tongji University, 507 Zheng Min Road, Shanghai 200433, PR China.
Jiang
Gening
G
Xie
Boxiong
B
Liu
Ming
M
D004691:Endarterectomy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D018202:Pulmonary Blastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed