Pulmonary artery sarcoma and chronic thromboembolism

Pathol Res Pract. 2008;204(2):139-41. doi: 10.1016/j.prp.2007.10.002. Epub 2007 Nov 26.

Abstract

Pulmonary artery sarcoma is a rare and highly lethal disease whose clinical findings are often indistinguishable from those of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Partial improvement after thrombolytic therapy has suggested that thromboembolic phenomena may be superimposed on the tumor, but, to date, a well-documented statement of these events has not been provided.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Chronic Disease
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Pulmonary Artery / pathology*
  • Pulmonary Embolism / etiology*
  • Pulmonary Embolism / pathology
  • Sarcoma / complications
  • Sarcoma / diagnosis*
  • Sarcoma / pathology
  • Vascular Neoplasms / complications
  • Vascular Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Vascular Neoplasms / pathology