Thorax 1999;54:748-749 ( August )
Case report
Pulmonary artery sarcoma diagnosed using intravascular ultrasound
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Yoshiaki Okanoa, Toru Satoha, Teiji Tatewakia, Takeyoshi Kuniedaa, Satoru Fukuyamab, Naoki Miyazakib, Yasuo Beppuc
a Division of
Cardiology and Pulmonary Vascular Medicine, Department of Internal
Medicine, National Cardiovascular Center, 5-7-1 Fujishirodai, Suita,
Osaka, Japan, b Division of Respiratology,
Nippon Steel Cooperation Yawata Works Hospital, 1-1-1 Haruno-cho,
Yahata-Higashi-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan, c Division of Orthopedics, National
Cancer Institute, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Correspondence to: Dr Y Okano, Director, Division of
Cardiology, Shinshiro City Hospital, 32-1 Kitabata, Shinshiro, Aichi
441-13, Japan.
Received 3 March 1997; Returned to authors 30 May 1997; Revised version received 22 December 1997;
Accepted for publication 13 January 1998
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.
Keywords:
pulmonary artery;
intravascular ultrasound;
intravascular sarcoma
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