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...

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Autores principales: Lozada, Juan Carlos Leandro Perez, Torstenson, Guy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4897088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27303552
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v3i4.148
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-48970882016-06-14 Chronic Pulmonary Embolism Mimicking Pulmonary Angiosarcoma Lozada, Juan Carlos Leandro Perez Torstenson, Guy Radiol Case Rep Article 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. Elsevier 2015-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4897088/ /pubmed/27303552 http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v3i4.148 Text en © 2008 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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