[Primary pericardial angiosarcoma with multiple lung and a solitary liver metastases: the clinical and anatomicopathological findings]

J A Ortiz de Murúa; M C Avila; F del Campo; P Zuazola; J L Villafranca; I Ursúa

[Primary pericardial angiosarcoma with multiple lung and a solitary liver metastases: the clinical and anatomicopathological findings]

Rev Esp Cardiol. 1994 Oct;47(10):710-2.

[Article in Spanish]

Authors

J A Ortiz de Murúa¹, M C Avila, F del Campo, P Zuazola, J L Villafranca, I Ursúa

Affiliation

¹ Sección de Cardiología, Hospital Virgen de la Concha, Zamora.

PMID: 7991927

Abstract

A case of 66-year-old woman with cardiac tamponade and bilateral pulmonary infiltrates is reported. These infiltrates were "pseudonodulars" and confluent. We practice pericardiocentesis and a hemorrhagic fluid is pulled out. Its cytology shown not neoplastic cells. She died and the necropsy shown an angiosarcoma of pericardium with multiple pulmonary and alone hepatic metastases.

Publication types

Case Reports
English Abstract
Review

MeSH terms

Aged
Fatal Outcome
Female
Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Heart Neoplasms / pathology
Hemangiosarcoma / diagnosis*
Hemangiosarcoma / pathology
Humans
Liver / pathology
Liver Neoplasms / pathology
Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
Lung / pathology
Lung Neoplasms / pathology
Lung Neoplasms / secondary*
Pericardium* / pathology