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Pulmonary artery sarcoma diagnosed using intravascular ultrasound images
1Division of Cardiology and Pulmonary Vascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cardiovascular Center, 5-7-1 Fujishirodai, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Thorax
|July 22, 1999
Abstract:
Primary and secondary malignant intravascular tumours of the pulmonary artery occur infrequently and the diagnosis is usually delayed as symptoms and findings from conventional examinations are non-specific. The case is presented of a patient with a pulmonary artery sarcoma, probably arising from ribs resected some years previously, in which intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) provided important diagnostic findings.