Journal
ACTA RADIOLOGICA OPEN
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/20584601211063360
Keywords
Primary aortic sarcoma; tumor infarction; stent graft placement; computed tomography; magnetic resonance imaging
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This case report describes a primary aortic sarcoma in a 62-year-old man, who experienced sudden epigastric and back pain. After stent graft placement, the tumor initially shrank due to tumor infarction, but subsequently regrew. The diagnosis was confirmed through a thoracoscopic biopsy.
Primary aortic sarcoma is a very rare disease, and most primary aortic tumors are malignant mesenchymal tumors. We present the case of a 62-year-old man with sudden epigastric and back pain. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) revealed a mass lesion about 33.8 mm in diameter, in contact with the left side of the abdominal aorta. Impending rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm was suspected, so cardiovascular surgery for stent graft placement was performed the same day. Symptoms immediately improved and CT at 3 months postoperatively showed a marked decrease in lesion size, but the lesion subsequently grew again. Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography/CT was performed due to the possibility of malignant solid tumor, revealing markedly increased FDG accumulation (maximum standardized uptake value, 36.95) in the mass lesion. Primary aortic sarcoma was diagnosed from thoracoscopic biopsy. Here, we report a primary aortic sarcoma that shrank due to tumor infarction after stent graft placement, followed by tumor regrowth.
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