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Primary Pulmonary Epithelioid Angiosarcoma: A Rare Case Presentation of Bilateral Pneumothoraces

Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm with a very poor prognosis that originates from the vascular endothelium and accounts for only 1%-2% of all sarcomatous malignancies. It is most commonly present in the deep soft tissues. Still, a wide range of primary sites, including the adrenals, thyroid,...

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Autores principales: Faiek, Saif, Tariq, Hafsa, Upparapalli, Deepti, Bansal, Aditya, Sompalli, Sreeja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32025433
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6514
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author Faiek, Saif
Tariq, Hafsa
Upparapalli, Deepti
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Sompalli, Sreeja
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description Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm with a very poor prognosis that originates from the vascular endothelium and accounts for only 1%-2% of all sarcomatous malignancies. It is most commonly present in the deep soft tissues. Still, a wide range of primary sites, including the adrenals, thyroid, skin, and bone, are encountered. Here, we report a 52-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension who presented with chest pain. Her chest images showed bilateral pneumothoraces with diffuse cystic lung disease. She underwent bilateral video-assisted thoracoscopy with a tissue biopsy, which was consistent with epithelioid angiosarcoma.
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spelling pubmed-69887292020-02-05 Primary Pulmonary Epithelioid Angiosarcoma: A Rare Case Presentation of Bilateral Pneumothoraces Faiek, Saif Tariq, Hafsa Upparapalli, Deepti Bansal, Aditya Sompalli, Sreeja Cureus Oncology Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm with a very poor prognosis that originates from the vascular endothelium and accounts for only 1%-2% of all sarcomatous malignancies. It is most commonly present in the deep soft tissues. Still, a wide range of primary sites, including the adrenals, thyroid, skin, and bone, are encountered. Here, we report a 52-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension who presented with chest pain. Her chest images showed bilateral pneumothoraces with diffuse cystic lung disease. She underwent bilateral video-assisted thoracoscopy with a tissue biopsy, which was consistent with epithelioid angiosarcoma. Cureus 2019-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6988729/ /pubmed/32025433 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6514 Text en Copyright © 2019, Faiek et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Faiek, Saif
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Primary Pulmonary Epithelioid Angiosarcoma: A Rare Case Presentation of Bilateral Pneumothoraces
title Primary Pulmonary Epithelioid Angiosarcoma: A Rare Case Presentation of Bilateral Pneumothoraces
title_full Primary Pulmonary Epithelioid Angiosarcoma: A Rare Case Presentation of Bilateral Pneumothoraces
title_fullStr Primary Pulmonary Epithelioid Angiosarcoma: A Rare Case Presentation of Bilateral Pneumothoraces
title_full_unstemmed Primary Pulmonary Epithelioid Angiosarcoma: A Rare Case Presentation of Bilateral Pneumothoraces
title_short Primary Pulmonary Epithelioid Angiosarcoma: A Rare Case Presentation of Bilateral Pneumothoraces
title_sort primary pulmonary epithelioid angiosarcoma: a rare case presentation of bilateral pneumothoraces
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32025433
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6514
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