title: Brain metastasis from pericardial angiosarcoma.
abstract: A case of metastatic intracranial angiosarcoma in a 17-year-old female is presented. The patient underwent a sternotomy for treatment of a primary angiosarcoma arising from the pericardium. The postoperative course was uneventful but the patient died as a result of multiple metastases. The metastatic intracranial tumor had features characteristic of angiosarcoma as revealed by light microscopy with positive immunohistochemical staining of factor VIII-related antigen. Only a few cases of intracranial metastasis from cardiac angiosarcoma have been reported in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital, Taiwan ROC.
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Howng
authors.forename: Z M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Kwan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans