Abstract

A 38-year-old woman presented with left lower chest pain. At the age of 3 years, a commissurotomy of the pulmonary valve and infundibulectomy was performed to correct severe infundibular pulmonary stenosis. The initial thoracic CT diagnosed bilateral pulmonary embolism. Echocardiography revealed a filiforme mass in the pulmonary artery 33 mm in length, floating in the right outflow tract, suggesting a pulmonary sarcoma. In addition, a moderate pulmonary valve insufficiency with mild stenosis was diagnosed. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) confirmed the mass in the left pulmonary artery (PA) with floating parts and a small mass in the right PA (Figure 1) and provided complementary findings identifying …

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