Primary pulmonary artery sarcoma: intra-operative similarity to pulmonary embolus

1 May 1987

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)

Vol. 63 (739) , 389-391
https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.63.739.389

Abstract

Summary: An infarcted right lower lobe, thought to be due to a thrombotic pulmonary embolus, was resected in a 48 year old man. Subsequent examination of the lobe unexpectedly showed the infarction to be secondary to a primary sarcoma of the pulmonary artery.

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