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Intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery is a rare disease. This neoplasm was characterized by an aggressive extension to the lumen of the pulmonary artery, thus mimicking a pulmonary thromboembolism. We herein report a 44-year-old woman who was diagnosed as having primary intimal sarcoma of the left lung preoperatively by transbronchial biopsy. The tumor originated in the pulmonary artery in the left lung, extending to the main pulmonary trunk via the pulmonary arterial lumen, thus resulting in stenosis of the main pulmonary trunk. A complete resection of the tumor with the left pneumonectomy and the pulmonary arterioplasty was successfully performed under cardiopulmonary bypass with vacuum assisted venous drainage.
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Nakajima, J., Morota, T., Matsumoto, J. et al. Pulmonary Intimal Sarcoma Treated by a Left Pneumonectomy with Pulmonary Arterioplasty Under Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Report of a Case. Surg Today 37, 496–499 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-006-3432-1
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