Latent pulmonary embolus from a retroperitoneal sarcoma.

Autor: Arbeit JM, Flye MW, Mundinger GH Jr, Webber BL
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cancer [Cancer] 1980 Sep 15; Vol. 46 (6), pp. 1492-8.
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19800915)46:6<1492::aid-cncr2820460633>3.0.co;2-3
Abstrakt: A 52-year-old female presented with an extensive retroperitoneal sarcoma and intraluminal inferior vena caval extension. Presumably during resection, embolization of a tumor fragment occurred to the right pulmonary hilum. The patient was asymptomatic for 16 months until a right hilar mass developed on a follow-up chest x-ray. Pathological examination of the gross and microscopic sections of the pneumonectomy specimen confirmed the intra-arterial location of the tumor mass. Widespread systemic metastasis became evident soon after pneumonectomy.
Databáze: MEDLINE