Key result
Real-time, 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography successfully diagnosed an aortic intimal sarcoma in the aortic arch that initially presented as a brain metastasis in a 56-year-old woman.
Case Report (n=1)
This case demonstrates the utility of real-time, 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in diagnosing rare primary tumors of the aorta.
Primary 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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Mecklai et al. (2014) conducted a case report in Aortic intimal sarcoma with brain metastasis (n=1). Real-time, 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography was evaluated on Diagnosis of aortic intimal sarcoma. Real-time, 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography successfully diagnosed an aortic intimal sarcoma in the aortic arch that initially presented as a brain metastasis in a 56-year-old woman.
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