title: A surgically treated pulmonary sclerosing haemangioma that clinically and radiologically mimicked a thrombosed pulmonary artery aneurysm.
abstract: We report the case of a 70-year-old woman with a surgically treated pulmonary sclerosing haemangioma that clinically and radiologically mimicked a thrombosed pulmonary artery aneurysm. She underwent intravenous thrombolytic therapy because of acute pulmonary embolism in the bilaterally segmental arteries. The pulmonary embolism had almost disappeared except for a nodular lesion in the middle lobe branch of the pulmonary artery, and a thrombosed pulmonary artery aneurysm with thrombus was suspected in the CT image. The patient underwent a video-assisted thoracoscopic middle lobectomy. The final pathological diagnosis was sclerosing haemangioma. She had experienced no recurrence for 1 year after surgery, and we continue to take great care during her follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Respiratory Disease Center, Tazuke Kofukai Foundation, Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Keiji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamanashi
authors.affiliation: Respiratory Disease Center, Tazuke Kofukai Foundation, Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shoji
authors.affiliation: Respiratory Disease Center, Tazuke Kofukai Foundation, Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.affiliation: Respiratory Disease Center, Tazuke Kofukai Foundation, Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Cheng-Long
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D047868:Pulmonary Sclerosing Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D013906:Thoracoscopy; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed