Diagnosis of Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma with Multi-modality Imaging
Büşra Güvendi Şengör1, Alev Kılıçgedik1, Tuba Unkun1, Emine Bozkurtlar2, Ahmet Erdal Taşçı3, Serpil Taş4, Cevat Kırma11Department of Cardiology, Kartal Koşuyolu Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey 2Department of Pathology, Marmara University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey 3Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kartal Koşuyolu Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey 4Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Koşuyolu Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
Pulmonary artery sarcoma is an extremely uncommon malignancy with a poor prognosis. It is often difficult to distinguish it from pulmonary thromboembolic disease because of nonspecific signs and symptoms as well as similar imaging findings. We present a 46-year-old man who had initially been diagnosed with presumed asthma that later proved to be pulmonary artery sarcoma. The patient was evaluated with multi-modality imaging studies which showed a mass in the pulmonary artery, its extension, mobility and invasion, and attachment to the artery wall. Pulmonary artery mass was excised and pulmonary artery endarterectomy was performed. The histopathological diagnosis was undifferentiated sarcoma with pleomorphic morphology.
How to cite this article Büşra Güvendi Şengör, Alev Kılıçgedik, Tuba Unkun, Emine Bozkurtlar, Ahmet Erdal Taşçı, Serpil Taş, Cevat Kırma. Diagnosis of Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma with Multi-modality Imaging. Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 2022; 50(2): 155-158
Corresponding Author: Büşra Güvendi Şengör, Türkiye Manuscript Language: English