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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;76:944-946
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Primary hemangiopericytoma of the trachea

Masataka Yoshida, MD*a, Masafumi Morita, MDa, Shotaro Kakimoto, MDa, Manpei Kawakami, MDb, Shinjiro Sasaki, MDb

a Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Minamiosaka General Hospital, Osaka Japan
b Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Medical College Hospital, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

Accepted for publication January 23, 2003.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Yoshida, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Medical College, 2-7 Daigakucho Takatsuki 569-8686, Japan
e-mail: tho037{at}poh.osaka-med.ac.jp

A 28-year-old man arrived at our hospital complaining of severe dyspnea. Bronchoscopic findings demonstrated that a tumor was located approximately 4 cm distant from the vocal cord, occupying most of the tracheal lumen. To urgently relieve the dyspnea, some parts of the tumor were cauterized with the neodymium:yttrium–aluminum garnet laser. Histopathologic examination of the cauterized specimen revealed malignant hemangiopericytoma. During the operation, the tumor was resected en bloc with a tracheal segment containing four tracheal cartilages. The patient’s postoperative course was uneventful with no evidence of recurrence 1 year after the operation.






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