Diagnosis of Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma with Multi-modality Imaging

Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 2022 Mar 1;50(2):155-158. doi: 10.5543/tkda.2022.21135.

Abstract

Pulmonary artery sarcoma is an extremely uncommon malignancy with a poor prognosis. It is often difficult to distinguish it from pulmonary thromboembolic disease because of nonspe cific signs and symptoms as well as similar imaging findings. We present a 46-year-old man who had initially been diagnosed with presumed asthma that later proved to be pulmonary artery sarcoma. The patient was evaluated with multi-modality imaging studies which showed a mass in the pulmonary artery, its extension, mobility and invasion, and attachment to the artery wall. Pulmonary artery mass was excised and pulmonary artery endarterectomy was performed. The histopathological diagnosis was undifferentiated sarcoma with pleomorphic morphology.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Multimodal Imaging
  • Pulmonary Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Artery / surgery
  • Pulmonary Embolism* / diagnosis
  • Sarcoma* / diagnostic imaging
  • Sarcoma* / surgery
  • Vascular Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
  • Vascular Neoplasms* / surgery