Primary angiosarcoma of the pleura is an extremely rare malignancy. Herein, we report the case of an elderly Chinese patient with primary left pleural epithelioid angiosarcoma. The 76-year-old man presented with a 4-month history of a cough with sputum expectoration and weight loss of 4 kg within one month. A chest scan showed a massive oval-shaped mass in the left pleural cavity. We then performed a left thoracotomy for tumor resection and surgical exploration. Histological examination of the resected specimen showed few viable tumor cells with significant atypia; tumor cells had large nuclei and prominent nucleoli and were arranged in a crack-like, sheeted pattern. Moreover, there was a significant amount of fibrinous exudates, hemorrhage, degeneration, and necrosis. With immunohistochemical analysis, tumor cells had strong expression of CD31, CD34, FLI-1, vimentin. Morphological and immunohistochemical findings supported the diagnosis of epithelioid angiosarcoma.
第一作者单位:[1]Capital Med Univ, Beijing Friendship Hosp, Dept Pathol, Beijing 100050, Peoples R China
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Zhang Shuhong,Zheng Yuanyuan,Liu Weihua,et al.Primary epithelioid angiosarcoma of the pleura: a case report and review of literature[J].INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of CLINICAL and EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY.2015,8(2):2153-2158.
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Zhang, Shuhong,Zheng, Yuanyuan,Liu, Weihua&Yu, Xiaomeng.(2015).Primary epithelioid angiosarcoma of the pleura: a case report and review of literature.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of CLINICAL and EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY,8,(2)
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Zhang, Shuhong,et al."Primary epithelioid angiosarcoma of the pleura: a case report and review of literature".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of CLINICAL and EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY 8..2(2015):2153-2158