Malignant fibrous histiocytoma arising from the aortic wall mimicking a pseudoaneurysm with ulceration

Circulation Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1659-1661

  Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^a   Ikeda, Osamu ^b   Ideta, Ichiro ^a   Hirayama, Touitsu ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b   Kamio, Takihiro ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI KUMAMOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Computed tomography (CT); Tumor

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DESMIN; IODINE; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING AORTA; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; THROMBOSIS; ULCER;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA, MALIGNANT FIBROUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; ULCER; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34948895672     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.1659     Document Type: Article

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