Letter to the Editor
Unexpected cause of syncope in a young woman
 
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Submission date: 2011-07-07
 
 
Final revision date: 2011-11-11
 
 
Acceptance date: 2011-12-12
 
 
Online publication date: 2013-08-12
 
 
Publication date: 2013-08-31
 
 
Arch Med Sci 2013;9(4):755-757
 
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We evaluated a case of a 36 - year - old women with a mass inside a pulmonary artery lumen diagnosed after she had transiently lost consciousness. Such a clinical manifestation of intimal sarcoma, a tumor of the great vessels, has not been described so far. Tumor masses are often misinterpreted as a thrombus and that is why a diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is made. PET has raised some hopes of distinguishing these two disorders. Intimal sarcoma is characterized by an extremely poor prognosis and thus a proper diagnosis and urgent surgical treatment should be implemented promptly.
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