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Primary laryngeal angiosarcoma (LA) is quite rare with only 13 cases reported in English literature to date. A case of LA after radiation therapy for tuberculosis and squamous cell carcinoma is reported. A 70-year-old woman had a history of radiation therapy for left cervical tuberculosis at the age
Neoplastic angioendotheliomatosis is a rare disorder usually characterized by primarily cutaneous or neurological symptoms. Approximately 40 cases of malignant angioendotheliomatosis with primary central nervous system (CNS) symptoms have been reported. Some investigators have postulated a
One of the great challenges in the cytodiagnosis of effusions is the distinction between reactive mesothelium/histiocytes and cancer cells. This is notably true in patients having undergone radiation and/or chemotherapy. To establish whether monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) could be used as reliable
Adrenal epithelioid angiosarcomas (AEA) are rare neoplasms. We report the clinicopathologic features of nine cases of AEA. AEA occurred most frequently in the sixth and seventh decades of life (age range, 45-85 years; median, 60); five cases occurred in men and four in women. Presenting symptoms
Cell surface glycans change during the process of malignant transformation. To characterize and distinguish endometrial cancer and endometrium, we performed glycan profiling using an emerging modern technology, lectin microarray analysis. The three cell lines, two from endometrial cancers
Angiosarcoma is an aggressive mesenchymal sarcoma of endothelial cell origin with high mortality. Its occurrence in the small intestine is exceedingly low. In addition to the rarity of small intestine angiosarcoma, the nonspecific early clinical symptoms obscure the suspicion of such tumors and
Sixteen cases of malignant rhabdoid tumor (MRT) were studied by conventional light microscopy, immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy and flow cytometry. The age of the 16 patients varied from two months to 25.9 years. There were 11 males and five females. Eleven tumors were located in the