Delineation of pulmonary artery sarcoma with multiplane and panoramic transesophageal echocardiography

A 38-year-old woman came for treatment with massive hemoptysis. A hilar density was observed on a chest radiograph. Transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated an intravascular pulmonary arterial mass that was studied in further detail with multiplane and panoramic transesophageal echocardiography. Surgical resection proved the mass to be a sarcoma arising from the main pulmonary artery. This case report demonstrates the utility of multiplane and panoramic transesophageal echocardiography in the study of intravascular tumors of the thorax.