Angiosarcoma of the heart: pericardial fluid cytology.
The unique cytomorphologic aspects of a cardiac angiosarcoma in pericardial fluid are presented. Smears and cell block preparations revealed clusters of malignant pleomorphic oval to spindle-shaped cells concentrically layered about amorphous acellular cores. The cytologic findings were correlated with histologic, immunohistochemical, and electron microscopic findings in the necropsy material.
Randall
M B
MB
Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.
Geisinger
K R
KR
D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology*