Intravascularly disseminated angiosarcoma: True neoplastic angioendotheliomatosis? Report of two cases

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1138-1143

  Lin, Bryan T Y ^a   Weiss, Lawrence M ^a   Battifora, Hector ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioendotheliomatosis; Angiotropic lymphoma; Immunohistochemistry; Intravascular angiosarcoma; Intravascular malignant lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOENDOTHELIOMATOSIS; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LUNG BIOPSY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, CD45; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0030863449     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199710000-00003     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. De Young BR, Wick MR, Fitzgibbon JF, Sirgi KE, Swanson PE. CD31: an immunospecific marker for endothelial differentiation in human neoplasms. Appl Immunohistochem 1993;1:97-100.
2. Falk S, Krishnan J, Meis JM. Primary angiosarcoma of the spleen. A clinipathologic study of 40 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 1993;17:959-70.
3. Fina L, Molgaard HV, Robertson D, et al. Expression of the CD34 gene in vascular endothelial cells. Blood 1990;75:2417-26.
4. Gown AM, De Wever N, Battifora H. Microwave-based antigenic unmasking: a revolutionary new technique for routine immunohistochemistry. Appl Immunohistochem 1993;1:256-66.
5. Guarda LA, Ordóñez NG, Smith JL, Haussen G. Immunoperoxidase localization of factor VIII in angiosarcomas. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1982;106:515-6.
6. Laurino L, Melato M. Malignant angioendotheliomatosis (angiotropic lymphoma) of the gall bladder. Virchows Arch [A] 1990;114:580-4.
7. Little D, Said JW, Siegel RJ, Fealy M, Fishbein MC. Endothelial cell markers in vascular neoplasms: an immunohistochemical study comparing factor VIII-related antigen, blood group specific antigens, 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, and ulex europaeus 1 lectin. J Pathol 1986;149:89-95.
8. Miettinen M, Lindenmayer AE, Chaubal A. Endothelial cell markers CD31, CD34, and BNH9 antibody to H- and Y-antigens-evaluation of their specificity and sensitivity in the diagnosis of vascular tumors and comparison with von Willebrand factor. Mod Pathol 1994;7:82-90.
9. Mori S, Itoyama S, Mohri N, et al. Cellular characteristics of neoplastic angioendotheliosis. An immunohistological marker study of 6 cases. Virchows Arch [A] 1985;407:167-75.
10. Mukai K, Rosai J, Burgdorf WHC. Localization of factor VIII-related antigen in vascular endothelial cells using an immunoperoxidase method. Am J Surg Pathol 1980;4:273-6.
11. Patel AM, Ryu JH. Angiosarcoma in the lung. Chest 1993;103:1531-5.
12. Ramani P, Bradley NJ, Fletcher CDM. QBEND/10, a new monoclonal antibody to endothelium: assessment of its diagnostic utility in paraffin sections. Histopathology 1990;17:237-42.
13. Sehested M, Hou-Jensen K. Factor VIII related antigen as an en- dothelial cell marker in benign and malignant diseases. Virchows Arch [A] 1981;391:217-25.
14. Sheibani K, Battifora H, Winberg CD, et al. Further evidence that "malignant angioendotheliomatosis" is an angiotropic large-cell lymphoma. N Engl J Med 1986;314:943-8.
15. Stevenson AJ, Chatten J, Bertoni F, Miettinen M. CD99 (p30/32MIC2) neuroectodermal/Ewing's sarcoma antigen as an immunohistochemical marker: review of over 600 tumors and the literature experience. Appl Immunohistochem 1994;2:231-40.
16. Stroup RM, Sheibani K, Moncada A, Purdy LJ, Battifora H. Angiotropic (intravascular) large eell lymphoma. A clinicopathologic study of seven cases with unique clinical presentations. Cancer 1990;66:1781-8.
17. Traweek ST, Kandalaft PL, Mehta P, Battifora H. The human hematopoietic progenitor cell antigen (CD-34) in vascular neoplasia. Am J Clin Pathol 1991;96:25-31.
18. van de Rijn M, Rouse RV. CD34. A review. Appl Immunohistochem 1994;2:71-80.
19. Warnke RA, Weiss LM, Chan JKC, Cleary ML, Dorfman RF. In: Rosai J, ed. Atlas of Tumor Puthology. 3rd ed. Fascicle 14. Tumors of the lymph nodes and spleen. Washington, DC: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1995:315.
20. Wick MR, Scheithauer BW, Cooper PH, Davitz MA, Parkinson K. Malignant "angioendotheliomatosis": evidence in favor of its reclassification as intravasculur lymphomatosis. Am J Surg Pathol 1986;10:112-23.
21. Wick MR, Scheithauer BW, Smith SL, Beart RW. Primary nonlymphoreticular malignant neoplasms of the spleen. Am J Surg Pathol 1982;229-42.
22. Wrotnowski U, Mills SE, Cooper PE. Malignant angioendotheliomatosis. An angiotropic lymphoma? Am J Clin Pathol 1985;83:244-8.
23. Yousem SA. Angiosarcoma presenting in the lung. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1986;110:112-5.
24. Yousem SA, Hochholzer L. Unusual thoracic manifestations of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1987; 111:459-63.