Angiosarkom der Pleura

Tumor and

tumorlike conditions of the pleura and juxtapleural region: review of imaging findings. Diagnosis: angiosarcoma. Technique: contrast-enhanced chest CT. Description: A 64-year-old man with no history presented with progressive shortness of breath. The initial contrast-enhanced CT scan (a) to rule out pulmonary embolism shows a well-delineated pleural-based oval lesion (arrow) in the base of the right lung. Findings are relatively aspecific. Follow-up CT examination 4 weeks later (b) shows prominent disease progression, with a large amount of fluid. Despite the relatively short time interval, there is a marked increase in pleural lesions, with widespread focal contrast enhancing pleural lesions in the right hemithorax. The rapid and aggressive progression points to the possible diagnosis of angiosarcoma, which was histologically confirmed

Multidetector

CT findings of primary pleural angiosarcoma : a systematic review, an additional cases report. A 65-year-old man diagnosed with primary pleural angiosarcoma. Enhanced, multidetector chest CT scans showed multiple, small nodules of poorly enhancing nature in the left parietal pleura(asterisk) (A). There were also right large pleural effusion and left small pleural effusion with thin, parietal pleural enhancement (B, C)

Multidetector

CT findings of primary pleural angiosarcoma : a systematic review, an additional cases report. Primary pleural angiosarcoma in a 75-year-old man with a history of tuberculosis. Enhanced multidetector CT scan (A, B) showed two, sharply demarcated, biconvex, hypodense masses, arising from chronic tuberculous empyema sequelae with calcific plaques. These masses were directly invaded the extrathoracic regions, resulting in adjacent left 6-8th ribs destruction (B, C). Lung scan (D) CT showed multiple hematogenous metastases in both lung fields, and left rib posterior arc change

Multidetector

CT findings of primary pleural angiosarcoma : a systematic review, an additional cases report. Enhanced multidetector CT (A, B) of a 67-year-old man showed right circumscribed, necrotic pleural masses. PET-CT(C) showed very intense uptake at the right pleural masses. 2D enhanced coronal reformat image (D) showed right visceral (dashed arrows) and parietal pleural masses(arrows)

Primary

pleural angiosarcoma as a mimicker of mesothelioma: a case reportChest roentgenogram. Plain chest film showed right-side loculated pleural effusion.