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[An unusual primary vascular tumor: intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery]
I Brochériou1, A Quillard, C Gatecel
1Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-82, bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris.
Annales De Pathologie
|January 29, 2000
Abstract:
Primary sarcomas of great vessels are rare and involve the aorta, pulmonary artery and inferior vena cava. The pathologic classification of these tumors can be made on the location of the sarcoma in relation to the vessel wall, luminal or mural. Luminal sarcomas are usually intimal sarcoma and mural sarcoma are most frequently leiomyosarcoma. The myofibroblastic or endothelial differentiation of these tumors is still debated. We report a case of intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery.