[A primary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma localized in the pulmonary valve]

Rev Esp Cardiol. 1991 Jun-Jul;44(6):421-3.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

A case of epithelioid haemangioendothelioma sited at pulmonary valve, with an excrescence growing invading pulmonary artery troncus and its principal branches, in a 56-year-old woman is reported. The evolutive behavior simulated some clinical situations which made difficult the diagnosis: a mild-moderate pulmonary stenosis, a general syndrome, and, finally, an acute pulmonary thromboembolism that carried to an aggressive management which conducted to the entity diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Emergencies
  • Female
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery
  • Hemangioendothelioma / complications
  • Hemangioendothelioma / diagnosis*
  • Hemangioendothelioma / surgery
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Pulmonary Embolism / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Embolism / etiology
  • Pulmonary Embolism / surgery
  • Pulmonary Valve
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / diagnosis