title: [Pulmonary artery compression by a mediastinal tumor].
abstract: Acquired arterial pulmonary stenosis is rarely found in adults. Reviews and case reports suggest that tumours of the mediastinum (teratomatas and Hodgkin's disease) are the most frequent culprits leading to compression of the main pulmonary artery. We present the case of a young patient with chest pain. Compression of the main and left pulmonary artery by an anterior mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumors (GCTs) was diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography and CT scan.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie, hôpital Pasteur, CHU de Nice, 30, avenue de Voie-Romaine, 06000 Nice, France. etiennepuymirat@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hugues
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lemoigne
authors.forename: C-H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Marquette
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mouroux
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Padovani
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gibelin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000150:complications; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms