title: Pulmonary Artery Agenesis Associated With Emphysema and Multiple Invasive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers.
abstract: Pulmonary artery (PA) agenesis in the absence of associated cardiac abnormalities is a rare congenital abnormality. It may remain undiagnosed until adulthood when patients present with respiratory symptoms such as hemoptysis, dyspnea, repeated respiratory infections, or pulmonary hypertension. Herein we present a case of a 50-year-old woman who was found to have multiple, morphologically distinct non-small cell lung cancers in association with agenesis of the PA. This instance represents the fourth reported case of such association in the English literature.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Makdisi
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Eric S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Edell
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Joseph J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Maleszewski
authors.affiliation: Division of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Julian R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Molina
authors.affiliation: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota. Electronic address: deschamps.claude@mayo.edu.
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Deschamps
mesh_terms: D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D054079:Vascular Malformations / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis