PRIMARY LEIOMYOSARCOMA OF THE PULMONARY-ARTERY CONFIRMED BY CATHETER SUCTION BIOPSY

Authors
YAMADA N KAMEI S YASUDA F ISAKA N YADA I NAKANO T
Citation
N. Yamada et al., PRIMARY LEIOMYOSARCOMA OF THE PULMONARY-ARTERY CONFIRMED BY CATHETER SUCTION BIOPSY, Chest, 113(2), 1998, pp. 555-556
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Respiratory System","Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Chest → ACNP
ISSN journal
00123692
Volume
113
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
555 - 556
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-3692(1998)113:2<555:PLOTPC>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
A patient with clinical features consistent with pulmonary embolism sh owed no improvement despite therapy with tissue-plasminogen activator and full-dose heparin. Transvenous catheter suction biopsy was success ful in establishing an antemortem histologic diagnosis of primary pulm onary artery leiomyosarcoma. Urgent surgical intervention was performe d.