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Pulmonary artery sarcomas (PAS's) are extremely rare malignant tumors that arise from the endothelial lining of the pulmonary arteries. On CT scans PAS's appear as intraluminal filling defects in the pulmonary arteries, mimicking pulmonary embolism (PE). Due to the similarities in radiographic
OBJECTIVE
To improve our understanding and facilitate early diagnosis of pulmonary artery sarcoma (PAS).
METHODS
The clinical and radiological features of 9 histopathologically confirmed patients with PAS were retrospectively analyzed.
RESULTS
Our PAS cohort consisted of 5 males and 4 females, with
We report the MR appearance of undifferentiated (embryonal) sarcoma of the liver (USL) in a 13-year-old female who presented with a 1-year history of intermittent abdominal pain, weight loss, and fatigue. The tumor was a large, solitary, well-defined focal mass lesion with multiple cystic spaces,
BACKGROUND
Small-bowel myeloid sarcoma is rare. Acute bowel obstruction is its usual clinical presentation.
METHODS
We report a case of small-bowel myeloid sarcoma that occurred in a 64-year-old woman who presented chronic secretory diarrhoea, hypokalaemia, and weight loss. Immature white blood
Clear cell sarcoma (CCS) is a high grade soft tissue sarcoma with a distinct molecular profile. Gastrointestinal CCS is very rare and most reported cases are in adults. We describe a 10-year-old female with a 4-month history of anemia who later developed fever, weight loss and abdominal pain. She
Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma is a very rare neoplasm, which is not lymphoma, but originates from a type of immune cells called follicular dendritic cells. We presented a 37-year-old woman who has suffered from obstructive jaundice, weight loss and right upper abdominal pain for 2 months. The
In a ten-year update of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center experience, cases of malignant lymphomas (20) and soft tissue sarcomas (20) of the gastrointestinal tract were reviewed. The stomach was the most common site (63%). The three most common presenting symptoms were abdominal pain, weight
BACKGROUND
Pulmonary artery sarcoma is a rare tumor with a poor prognosis.
METHODS
We report the case of a 64-year-old man with an intimal pulmonary artery sarcoma presenting with severe high oxygen flow-demanding dyspnea and weight loss of 12 kg in the last 6 months. On echocardiography, right
A 70-year-old Caucasian male presented to our clinic for a pruritic eruption progressing over several months. He complained of fatigue with a 20-pound weight loss over the past year. On presentation, the patient had browny-yellow to violaceous, purpuric, macular and papular lesions on the legs,
Classical Kaposi's sarcoma is an unusual multifocal neoplasm of vascular endothelial cell origin, and considered a less malignant, slowly-progressing tumor. Although visceral involvement is occasionally seen in HIV/AIDS patients with KS, tumor dissemination to visceral lymph nodes in classical KS is
The records of patients with primary gastric lymphoma and sarcoma treated at M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute between 1945 and 1975 were reviewed. Weight loss, abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting were the most common presenting symptoms, while palpable abdominal mass was the most common
In the following, we describe the very rare case of Langerhans cell sarcoma (LCS) in the lung. Throughout the medical literature, only a few cases have been published, and, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported in Germany. The patient was an 81-year-old man who showed
Visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) affecting HIV-infected patient is being reported in increasing frequency. A 40-year-old German bisexual patient with full-blown AIDS is described who presented with Kaposi's sarcoma, epigastric pain, diarrhea, and weight loss but without fever. Leishmania