title: Pseudomesotheliomatous angiosarcoma of the chest wall and pleura.
abstract: Angiosarcoma is a rare soft tissue sarcoma that usually occurs in deep soft tissues, breast, spleen, liver, and bone. Primary thoracic parietal localization of angiosarcoma is rare and prognosis is poor. In this report, we present the CT and PET features of a patient with pseudomesotheliomatous angiosarcoma of the chest wall and pleura, which, to the best of our knowledge, have not previously been described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Abdominal Imaging Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. iaiacdf@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Del Frate
authors.forename: Koenraad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mortele
authors.forename: Romeo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zanardi
authors.forename: Andetta R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Hunsaker
authors.forename: Nayer
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nikpoor
authors.forename: Edmund S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Cibas
authors.forename: Stuart G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Silverman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D035441:Thoracic Wall; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed