Intimal sarcoma in the aortic arch partially obstructing the aorta with metastasis to the brain. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Primary tumors of the aorta are rare entities. We report the unusual manifestation of an aortic intimal sarcoma that presented as a brain metastasis in a 56-year-old, otherwise healthy woman. After the brain mass had been resected, multiple imaging methods revealed pseudocoarctation and the primary tumor in the aortic arch. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the diagnosis of an aortic intimal sarcoma with use of real-time, 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography.

publication date

  • August 1, 2014

Research

keywords

  • Aorta, Thoracic
  • Arterial Occlusive Diseases
  • Brain Neoplasms
  • Sarcoma
  • Tunica Intima
  • Vascular Neoplasms

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4120511

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84905228846

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.14503/THIJ-13-3448

PubMed ID

  • 25120401

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 41

issue

  • 4