[SURGERY FOR SARCOMA OF THE PULMONARY ARTERY]

Sarcoma of the pulmonary artery is a rare tumor. At present the literature describes single cases. However the number of publications increases in recent time due to improved diagnostics. There are appeared papers, which provide a series of observations of surgical treatment for this kind of tumor exceeded more than 10 cases. It can be assumed that today the number of these cases in the literature contains several hundreds. Thus despite the rarity of this tumor there is a certain understanding of the clinical picture of this disease and treatment that we tried to do in this paper being studied the available literature and bringing four of our observation.