Pulmonary artery sarcoma: Case report and review of the literature

Pulmonary artery sarcoma is a rare malignancy with poor prognosis which can be misdiagnosed as pulmonary thromboembolism. We present a case of a middle age woman who initially diagnosed with presumptive pulmonary embolism that was later found to have pulmonary artery sarcoma. Symptoms, pathology, im...

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Autores principales: Moguillansky, Natalia I., Verma, Nupur, Shah, Purav, Knapik, Jacquelyn, Mohammed, Tan-Lucien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6538954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31193694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100857
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Sumario:Pulmonary artery sarcoma is a rare malignancy with poor prognosis which can be misdiagnosed as pulmonary thromboembolism. We present a case of a middle age woman who initially diagnosed with presumptive pulmonary embolism that was later found to have pulmonary artery sarcoma. Symptoms, pathology, imaging characteristics and available treatments are discussed.

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