Metastatic Epithelioid Angiosarcoma of the Heart in Peritoneal Fluid

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 350-352

  Saqi, Anjali ^a   Ramdall, Risha B ^a   Hamele Bena, Diane ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Ascites; Exfoliative cytology

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; DESMIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DYSPNEA; EPITHELIOID SARCOMA; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; HEART SARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METASTASIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERITONEAL BIOPSY; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ASCITIC FLUID; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 2342509798     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20023     Document Type: Article

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