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Case Reports
Intimal sarcoma in the aortic arch partially obstructing the aorta with metastasis to the brain.
- Alicia Mecklai, Barry Rosenzweig, Robert Applebaum, Leon Axel, Eugene Grossi, Alexander Chan, and Muhamed Saric.
- Departments of Medicine (Drs. Applebaum, Mecklai, Rosenzweig, and Saric), Radiology (Dr. Axel), Surgery (Dr. Grossi), and Pathology (Dr. Chan), New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016.
- Tex Heart Inst J. 2014 Aug 1;41(4):433-6.
AbstractPrimary 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.
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