Angiosarcoma in the chest: Radiologic-pathologic correlation: Case report

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 48, 2016, Pages e5348-

  Piciucchi, Sara ^a   Dubini, Alessandra ^b   Tomassetti, Sara ^b   Sanna, Stefano ^b   Ravaglia, Claudia ^b   Carloni, Angelo ^c   Gurioli, Christian ^b   Gurioli, Carlo ^b   Colby, Thomas V ^d   Poletti, Venerino ^b,e  

^a GB Morgagni L Pierantoni General Hospital   (Italy)

^b MORGAGNI PIERANTONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c S MARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma of the atrium; Case report; CD 31; Halo sign; Metastatic angiosarcoma; Neoplastic thrombotic microangiopathy

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CYTOKERATIN AE1; CYTOKERATIN AE3; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; HEMATOPNEUMOTHORAX; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LUNG LESION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; METASTATIC ANGIOSARCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; THORAX PAIN; THORAX TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY; VESICULAR RASH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FATALITY; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

FATAL OUTCOME; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85007433721     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000005348     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Bocklage T, Leslie KO, Yousem S, et al. Extracutaneous angiosarcomas metastatic to the lungs: clinical and pathologic features of twenty-one cases. Mod Pathol 2001;14:1216-25.
2. Patel AM, Ryu JH. Angiosarcoma in the lung. Chest 1993;103:1531-5.
3. Holloway BJ, Agarwal PP. AJR teaching file: right atrialmass in awoman with dyspnea on exertion. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2009;192:S42-52.
4. Fatima J, Duncan AA, Maleszewsky JJ, et al. Primary angiosarcoma of the aorta, great vessels, and the heart. J Vasc Surg 2013;57:756-64.
5. Kim JM, KIM MS, Park JH, et al. Pulmonary artery angiosarcoma confused with acute pulmonary thromboembolism: focusing on clinical and echocardigraphic features in the differentiation of two categories. J Cardiovasc Ultrasound 2015;23:4-7.
6. Rai SP, Barthwal MS, Bhattacharya B, et al. Metastatic angiosarcoma presenting as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. Lung India 2008;25:14-6.
7. Adem C, Aubry MC, Tazelaar HD, et al. Metastatic angiosarcoma masquerading as diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage. Arch Patol Lab Med 2001;125:1562-5.
8. Fiorelli A, Vicidomini G, Palladino A, et al. Bilateral lung lesions: when the eyes deceive the brain. Ann Ital Chir 2012;83:87-9.
9. Chen YB, Guo LC, Yang L, et al. Angiosarcoma of the lung: 2 cases report and literature reviewed. Lung Cancer 2010;70:352-6.
10. Tateishi U,Hasegawa T, KusumotoM, et al. Metastatic angiosarcoma of the lung: spectrum of CT findings. AJR 2003;180:1671-4.
11. Miller SR, Chua GT, Jay SJ. General case of the day: angiosarcomatous pulmonary metastases. Radiographics 1993;13:1153-5.
12. May T, Blank S, Dressel D, et al. Angiosarcoma with extensive pulmonary metastases, presenting with spontaneous bilateral pneumothoraces. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2013;188:749.
13. Primack SL, Hartman TE, Lee KS, et al. Pulmonary nodules and the CT halo sign. Radiology 1994;190:513-5.
14. Yogi A, Miyara T, Ogawa K, et al. Pulmonary metastases from angiosarcoma: a spectrum of CT findings. Acta Radiol 2016;57:41-6.
15. Ho ALK, Szulakowsi P, Mohamid WHS. The diagnostic challenge of pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy as a presentation for metastatic gastric cancer: a case report and review of the literature. Cancer 2015;15:450-5.
16. Chen W, Shih CS, Wang YT, et al. Angiosarcoma with pulmonary metastasis presenting with spontaneous bilateral pneumothorax in an elderly man. J Formos Med Assoc 2006;105:238-41.
17. Somasekharan Nair KK, Arleen S, Zabell AS, et al. Pneumothorax: a classical presentation of metastatic scalp angiosarcoma. Ann Thorac Surg 2012;94:77-8.
18. Aryal S, Chu C, Morehead RS. An 83-year-old gentleman with bilateral spontaneous pneumothoraces and multiple cysts. Chest 2011;139:1536-9.
19. Aversa M, Bhinder S, Tanguay J, et al. A rare cause of hemoptysis. Respir Med Case Rep 2014;13:48-50.
20. Demirag F, Cakir E, Yazici U, et al. Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy from metastatic epithelioid angiosarcoma. J Thorac Dis 2013;5:107-11.
21. Franquet T, Gimenez A, Prats R, et al. Thrombotic microangiopathy of pulmonary tumors: a vascular cause of tree-in-bud pattern on CT. AJR 2002;179:897-9.