Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma - Multimodality Imaging

Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma

Pulmonary artery sarcomas (PAS) are extremely rare sarcomas of uncertain histogenesis that often mimic pulmonary thromboemboli. This is a report of a 60-year-old female patient who presented with recurrent chest pain and cough. The patient was first diagnosed with pulmonary embolism but she did not improve on anticoagulant therapy. Follow-up imaging studies revealed a mass in the left hilar reg...

Multimodality Imaging of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery

Pulmonary artery sarcoma mimicking pulmonary thromboembolism.

A 30 years old male patient was referred to our hospital with a diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism due to thorax-computerized tomography (CT) angiography, revealing a thrombus totally occluding left main pulmonary artery. The lesion was evaluated as tumoural mass. Positron emission tomography (PET)-CT revealed pathologic uptake at pulmonary artery mass. Due to localization of tumour, left p...

Pulmonary artery sarcoma mimicking a pulmonary embolism.

Sarcomas involving the lung are a rare occurrence, often a result of metastatic disease from primary malignancies involving the skin, liver, breast or heart. Primary pulmonary artery sarcomas are rarer still, with limited cases reported world-wide and consequently data regarding treatment modalities are sparse and largely experimental. These tumors are often mistaken for a pulmonary embolism an...

Pulmonary artery sarcoma mimicking chronic pulmonary thromboembolism

Pulmonary artery sarcoma mimicking chronic pulmonary thromboembolism Sarcoma da artéria pulmonar simulando tromboembolismo pulmonar crônico Dear Editor, A 35-year-old woman was admitted in our institution with a 2-year history of dyspnea, hemoptysis and chest pain. Chest computed tomography (CT) demonstrated filling defects in the right pulmonary artery and some of its branches (Figure 1A). Tra...