Intimal pulmonary artery sarcoma presenting as severe dyspnea and right heart insufficiency

Onkologie

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 313-316

  Halank, Michael ^a   Jakob, Christiane ^a   Kolditz, Martin ^a   Hoeffken, Gerd ^a   Kappert, Utz ^a   Ehninger, Gerhard ^a   Weise, Matthias ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dyspnea; Echocardiography; Pulmonary artery sarcoma; Right heart insufficiency; Surgery

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTIMAL PULMONARY ARTERY SARCOMA; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; SARCOMA; WEIGHT REDUCTION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEART FAILURE; INTIMA; LUNG; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; THORACOSCOPY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR INVASION; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LUNG; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY ARTERY; SARCOMA; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77953277881     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313861     Document Type: Article

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