Pulmonary artery sarcoma masquerading as chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 108-112

  Kerr, Kim M ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; Endarterectomy; Pulmonary artery sarcoma

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SARCOMA; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SARCOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 20344399929     PISSN: 17434297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpcardio0118     Document Type: Article

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