UNUSUAL THORACIC MANIFESTATIONS OF EPITHELIOID HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA

  • 1 May 1987
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 111  (5) , 459-463
Abstract
Intravascular bronchioloalveolar tumors are now recognized as the pulmonary analogue of epithelioid hemangioendotheliomas of the somatic soft tissues. These low-grade endothelial sarcomas have a typical histologic appearance and usually present as bilateral pulmonary nodules in young women. The present report describes four unusual clinical manifestations of the epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: as an anterior mediastinal mass, as diffuse pleural thickening resembling malignant mesothelioma, as a metastatic carcinoma with cancerization of the lymphatics (lymphagitic carcinoma), and as a solitary peripheral calcified nodule. These anomalous clinical presentations correspond to unusual histologic appearance of the tumor at open-lung biopsy, and need to be recognized by both the clinician and the pathologist.

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