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. 2006 Jul 5;8(3):2.

Primary alveolar soft part sarcoma of chest wall: a case report and review of the literature

Farhad Zamani  1 , Mosadegh Jabbari, Seyed Maysom Alimohamadi, Ramin Shakeri, Zohreh Rostami, Behnoush Abedi, Mahshid Hormazdi, Reza Malekzadeh
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Primary alveolar soft part sarcoma of chest wall: a case report and review of the literature

Farhad Zamani et al. MedGenMed. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Chest x-ray: indicative of a large mass over the left anterior chest wall, and multiple well-defined, round-shaped bilateral pulmonary opacities, due to metastatic involvement of the lungs.
Figure 2
Figure 2
X-ray of the mass, showing a tumor of soft-tissue density with a highly vascular context.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Computerized tomographic scan of the brain: a hyperdense space occupying lesion is noted in the left frontal lobe, indicating a metastatic focus.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Chest computerized tomographic scan, showing multiple pulmonary metastases on both sides.
Figure 5
Figure 5
Light microscopic view, showing pseudoalveolar arrangement of the neoplastic cells (H&E stain, medium power).
Figure 6
Figure 6
Clusters of tumor cells separated from each other by dense fibrous trabeculae, each cluster further divided into groups of cells with central degeneration and loss of cohesion resulting in an alveolar or pseudoglandular pattern (H&E stain, low power).
Figure 7
Figure 7
Neoplastic cells, round to polygonal in shape, with large finely granular cytoplasm and well-defined borders. Large, round-to-oval eccentrically placed nuclei, with prominent single-to-multiple nucleoli, are sometimes seen.
Figure 8
Figure 8
A tumor cell nest shows a bizarre tumor cell with periodic acid-Schiff-positive reaction in the cytoplasm.
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