Endovascular catheter biopsy of a pulmonary artery sarcoma.
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Pulmonary artery sarcoma mimicking a pulmonary embolism.
Sarcomas involving the lung are a rare occurrence, often a result of metastatic disease from primary malignancies involving the skin, liver, breast or heart. Primary pulmonary artery sarcomas are rarer still, with limited cases reported world-wide and consequently data regarding treatment modalities are sparse and largely experimental. These tumors are often mistaken for a pulmonary embolism an...
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Primary sarcomata of the great vessels are so rare that Jores, in 1924, dismissed all cases described up to that time, for lack of evidence of their nature. Eight 4fases of sarcoma of the main pulmonary artery have been published since. In this paper we summarize them and describe a new case of our own, in an endeavour to form a composite clinical and pathological picture by which the disease m...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Roentgenology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0361-803X,1546-3141
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.167.3.8751674