Pulmonary artery sarcoma with angiosarcoma phenotype mimicking pleomorphic malignant fibrous histiocytoma: A case report

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bohn, Olga L ^a,d   de León, Eric A ^b   Lezama, Oscar ^b   Rios Luna, Nina P ^a   Sánchez Sosa, Sergio ^a   Llombart Bosch, Antonio ^c  

^a UPAEP University Hospital   (Mexico)

^b Hospital Angeles   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Immunohistochemistry; Pulmonary artery; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG RESECTION; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PULMONARY ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA, MALIGNANT FIBROUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84868327503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-7-154     Document Type: Article

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