Abstract
Pulmonary angiosarcoma is an uncommon vascular and usually secondary tumor. Only a few primary cases of pulmonary angiosarcoma have been described. We report a case of primary pulmonary angiosarcoma in an adult man who presented with hemoptysis. Chest x-ray film and chest CT showed a right para-cardiac opacity associated with diffuse alveolar consolidation of the right basal lobe. Right inferior lobectomy has been performed. Pulmonary angiosarcoma was diagnosed on histological and immuno-histochemical studies of the operative specimen. The primitive character was retained after ruling out all other tumor localizations. The clinical outcome was rapidly fatal. This observation is added to the other rare cases published of primitive pulmonary angiosarcoma. It confirms the poor prognosis and the extremely hemorrhagic nature of this tumor. Isolated necrotic parenchymatous mass was an original radiological pattern observed in this patient.
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