title: [Pulmonary artery sarcoma mimicking a Hughes Stovin syndrome. Report of one case].
abstract: Pulmonary artery sarcoma is an uncommon entity with high mortality. Its clinical presentation is usually indistinguishable from pulmonary embolism, which leads to a significant delay in diagnosis. Hughes-Stovin syndrome is characterized by venous thrombosis and aneurysms of the pulmonary or bronchial artery. We report a 59 year-old female with a history of recurrent pulmonary embolism. In the last thromboembolic episode a pulmonary artery aneurysm was found on a CT scan. The patient was operated performing a left inferior lobectomy. The patient died five days after surgery and the pathological examination of the surgical piece revealed a pulmonary artery sarcoma.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Erlij
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Michalland
authors.forename: Óscar
authors.initials: Ó
authors.lastname: Neira
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: Verónica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Wolff
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013577:Syndrome; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis*