Idiopathic intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery: report of a case

We report on a 51 years old woman patients with pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma, whose first symptoms was paroxysmal cough without obvious cause, and with left chest pain. It is misdiagnosed as Pleural effusion, cryptogenic organizing pneumonia and pulmonary artery embolism with pulmonary infarction successively. After pulmonary artery endarterectomy and tumor biopsy, histopathology revealed right pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma. And then she was treated by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and died 32 months after operation.