Chronic Pulmonary Embolism Mimicking Pulmonary Angiosarcoma.
We present the case of a 41-year-old woman who presented with chest pain. CT for possible pulmonary embolism showed a mass filling the left main pulmonary artery, with imaging features suggestive of pulmonary angiosarcoma. Open thoracotomy for excision of the mass revelaed no mass, only evidence of a chronic pulmonary thrombus of the left pulmonary artery. We conclude that the radiologic features of chronic pulmonary thrombus may mimick those of pulmonary angiosarcoma.
Juan Carlos Leandro Perez
JC
Lozada
Guy
G
Torstenson
CT, computed tomography; FDG, fluorodeoxyglucose; PET, positron emission tomography