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. 1987 May;63(739):389–391. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.63.739.389

Primary pulmonary artery sarcoma: intra-operative similarity to pulmonary embolus.

G A Berg 1, B N Hamid 1, W E Kenyon 1, M J Drakeley 1
PMCID: PMC2428459  PMID: 3671274

Abstract

An infarcted right lower lobe, thought to be due to a thrombotic pulmonary embolus, was resected in a 48 year old man. Subsequent examination of the lobe unexpectedly showed the infarction to be secondary to a primary sarcoma of the pulmonary artery.

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