Trübenbach J, Pereira P L, Huppert P E, Farnsworth C, Mayer R, Feine U, Claussen C D
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Br J Radiol. 1997 Aug;70(836):843-5. doi: 10.1259/bjr.70.836.9486052.
Due to their rarity, primary tumours of the pulmonary arteries are often incorrectly diagnosed as more common diseases such as pulmonary thromboembolism and are seldom diagnosed during a patient's lifetime. Surgery or potentially curative chemotherapy may therefore be withheld. We report a patient with a primary choriocarcinoma of the left pulmonary artery, which was first suspected on a CT scan. The neoplastic nature of the obstruction of the pulmonary arteries was confirmed by positron emission tomography.
由于肺动脉原发性肿瘤较为罕见，它们常常被误诊为更常见的疾病，如肺血栓栓塞症，而且在患者的有生之年很少被诊断出来。因此，手术或可能治愈性的化疗可能会被推迟。我们报告了一名患有左肺动脉原发性绒毛膜癌的患者，该病例最初是在CT扫描中被怀疑的。正电子发射断层扫描证实了肺动脉阻塞的肿瘤性质。
