Brain metastasis from pericardial angiosarcoma |
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Authors: | SL Hwang SL Howng ZM Sun AL Kwan |
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Affiliation: | MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester, UK. |
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Abstract: | A case of metastatic intracranial angiosarcoma in a 17-year-old female is presented. The patient underwent a sternotomy for treatment of a primary angiosarcoma arising from the pericardium. The postoperative course was uneventful but the patient died as a result of multiple metastases. The metastatic intracranial tumor had features characteristic of angiosarcoma as revealed by light microscopy with positive immunohistochemical staining of factor VIII-related antigen. Only a few cases of intracranial metastasis from cardiac angiosarcoma have been reported in the literature. |
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