Deciduoid epithelial mesothelioma of the pleura with focal rhabdoid change.
Deciduoid epithelial mesothelioma of the pleura with focal rhabdoid change.
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胸膜蜕膜样上皮间皮瘤伴局灶性横纹肌样改变。
DOI:
10.1097/00000478-200010000-00021
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发表时间:
2000
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通讯作者:
G. Nguyen
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作者:
L. Puttagunta;R. Vriend;G. Nguyen
We read with interest the paper on mesotheliomas with deciduoid morphology by Shanks et al. 9 and the article on epithelial mesothelioma with deciduoid features by Ordonez, 7 and we want to contribute a case of deciduoid epithelial mesothelioma of the pleura with focal rhabdoid changes. Our case is documented in the files of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.The patient was a 41-year-old man with no history of occupational exposure to asbestos. He was diagnosed as having mediastinal Hodgkin's disease, nodular sclerosing type, at the age of 27. His Hodgkin's disease was successfully controlled with three courses of chemotherapy with vinblastin, procarbazine, chlorambucil, and prednisone followed by extended-field radiotherapy with a total dose of 3500 cGy. He presented 14 years later with a 6-month history of progressive exertional dyspnea associated with pleuritic-type chest pain. Chest roentgenograms revealed a large left pleural effusion, and approximately 1200 mL of a straw-colored serous fluid was drained. His pleural effusion was scanty in cellularity and showed only a few single and clustered benign mesothelial cells. The left pleural effusion recurred 2 weeks later. It was drained again and showed only a few reactive mesothelial cells with morphologic features similar to those present in his first effusion. A chest computed tomography scan was performed and revealed multiple small pleural-based mass lesions located on the left parietal and visceral pleurae. Subsequent left pleuroscopy confirmed the above-mentioned computed tomography findings, and biopsy of two separate pleural lesions was performed. The tissue fragments obtained were white in color and measured up to 1 cm in greatest dimension. A frozen section was performed on one tissue fragment, and a diagnosis of epithelial mesothelioma was suggested. The biopsied tissue fragments were fixed in formalin for routine histologic and immunohistochemical studies, and several small tissue samples measuring up to 1 mm in greatest dimension were fixed in 2% glutaraldehyde and processed for electron microscopic examination.