Radical resection of a pulmonary blastoma involving the pulmonary artery

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2008 Sep;34(3):695-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.05.020. Epub 2008 Jun 25.

Abstract

Pulmonary blastoma is a rare malignant lesion with a poor prognosis. We described a case of a 47-year-old woman with a large biphasic pulmonary blastoma, involving the left pulmonary artery. Under cardiopulmonary bypass, it was treated with radical left intrapericardial pneumonectomy and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Subsequent chemotherapy and radiotherapy was used. Three years postoperatively, the patient was clinically and radiologically free of tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Endarterectomy / methods
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Pneumonectomy / methods
  • Pulmonary Artery / surgery*
  • Pulmonary Blastoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Blastoma / pathology
  • Pulmonary Blastoma / surgery*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed