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- Case Report -
A Case of Surgically Resected Pulmonary Angiosarcoma
Takahiro Kinoshita1,2, Shinji Maebeya2, Motokazu Kato1 and Yasuaki Naito3Department of Surgery, Sengokuso National Hospital1, Department of Respiratory Surgery, Nago District Hospital2, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Wakayama Medical College3
Background: Pulmonary angiosarcoma is a rare malignant vascular tumor. We report a case of surgically resected pulmonary angiosarcoma. Case: An 82-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of bloody sputum and cough. The chest X-ray film and CT film showed a 50×45 mm mass in the right upper lobe (S1). The tumor was diagnosed as lung cancer by transbronchoscopic lung biopsy, so upper lobectomy with regional lymph node dissection was perfomed. The histological diagnosis was pulmonary angiosarcoma based on silver, factor VIII and CD34 stainings. The patient died of multiple bone metastases about 6 months after the operation. Conclusion: Pulmonary angiosarcoma is rare, and we could find only 11 cases in the Japanese literature. The prognosis is said to be very poor. The patient died of distant metastases about 6 months after the curative operation.
key words: Pulmonary angiosarcoma, Lung cancer, Multiple bone metastases
Received: December 20, 1999
Accepted: May 18, 2000
JJLC 40 (4): 297-300, 2000
