title: Pleural angiosarcoma: a rare cause of spontaneous haemothorax.
abstract: Angiosarcoma is a rare soft tissue tumour and constitutes less than 1% of all soft tissue cancers. Pleural angiosarcomas are extremely rare and have an aggressive course. We report the case of a 79-year-old female patient who presented with complaints of increasing dyspnoea on exertion and homogeneous opacification of the left hemithorax on chest radiograph. Epithelioid angiosarcoma was determined on pleural tissue obtained by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chest Diseases, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Seda Tural
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Onur
authors.forename: Zeki
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Günlüoglu
authors.forename: Levent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dalar
authors.forename: Sinem
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sökücü
authors.forename: Sedat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Altin
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dinçer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006491:Hemothorax / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted