Successful Treatment of Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma by a Two-drug Combination Chemotherapy Consisting of Ifosfamide and Epirubicin

We describe a case of 63-year-old woman with pulmonary artery sarcoma successfully treated with chemotherapy. She developed acute shortness of breath, and left chest and shoulder pain. Although a diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism was made at a local hospital and she received anticoagulation and thrombolysis therapy, no improvement was achieved. Thereafter, she underwent a pulmonary thromboectomy in our hospital, and the histological...