Intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery, a diagnostic enigma

Anastasios Barmpas; Dimitrios Giannakidis; Varvara Fyntanidou; Charilaos Koulouris; Stylianos Mantalobas; Efstathios Pavlidis; Georgos Koimtzis; Athanasios Katsaounis; Nikolaos Michalopoulos; Vyron Alexandrou; Zoi Aidoni; Kosmas Tsakiridis; Christoforos Kosmidis; Aikaterini Amaniti; Paul Zarogoulidis; Isaak Kesisoglou; Konstantinos Sapalidis

doi:10.21037/acr.2019.07.02

Intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery, a diagnostic enigma

AME Case Rep. 2019 Aug 12:3:32. doi: 10.21037/acr.2019.07.02. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Anastasios Barmpas^{1

2}, Dimitrios Giannakidis¹, Varvara Fyntanidou¹, Charilaos Koulouris¹, Stylianos Mantalobas¹, Efstathios Pavlidis¹, Georgos Koimtzis¹, Athanasios Katsaounis¹, Nikolaos Michalopoulos¹, Vyron Alexandrou¹, Zoi Aidoni¹, Kosmas Tsakiridis¹, Christoforos Kosmidis¹, Aikaterini Amaniti³, Paul Zarogoulidis^{1

4}, Isaak Kesisoglou¹, Konstantinos Sapalidis¹

Affiliations

¹ Third Department of Surgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
² Cardiology Department, Clinic Holding RKH, Ludwigsburg, Germany.
³ Anesthesiology Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁴ Department of Interventional Pneumology, Ruhrlandklinik, West German Lung Center, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.

Abstract

Heart malignancies are rare and difficult to diagnose at early stage. Usually they are discovered when they present disease symptoms. CT of the thorax with contrast, MRI of the thorax, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) or echocardiography (transthoracic and/or transesophageal) and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-CT (FDG-PET-CT) can be used to diagnose this entity. We present a rare heart sarcoma and our diagnostic algorithm.

Keywords: Sarcoma; heart; pulmonary artery.

Publication types

Case Reports