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Pages 455-461 (July - August 2006)
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Hemangioendotelioma epitelióide da pleura: Sobrevida de 29 meses
Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma of the pleura: 29 months survival
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Anabela Oliveira1, Lina Carvalho2
1 Assistente Eventual de Medicina Interna do Hospital Distrital de Aveiro
2 Professora de Anatomia Patológica da Faculdade de Medicina de Coimbra
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O hemangioendotelioma epitelióide da pleura é uma neoplasia rara, com crescimento rápido, de difícil diagnóstico imagiológico e histológico e raramente submetido a tratamento cirúrgico atempado e curativo devido à sobrevida muito curta que condiciona.

Em 2005 estavam descritos 31 casos de tumores vasculares na pleura, sendo 11 hemagioendoteliomas epitelióides, aos quais se acrescenta o actual, de uma doente de 52 anos que sofreu um traumatismo toraco-abdominal. Revelou tempo de sobrevida longo (29 meses) após o diagnóstico histológico, ocorrido ocasionalmente por biópsias efectuadas em exame toraco-videoscópico para drenagem de hemotórax. Eram evidentes as lesões vasculares características na pleura direita, sem tradução imagiológica, e houve desenvolvimento de lesão nodular, documentado um mês antes do falecimento da doente.

Rev Port Pneumol 2006; XII (4): 455-461

Palavras-chave:
Pleura
hemangioendotelioma epitelióide
Abstract

Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma of the pleura is a rare neoplasia with a very poor prognosis due to aggressive involvement of the pleura and incomplete surgical treatment. Histological diagnosis and imagiology is also controversial, related to discrete development of the lesions that later reveal nodules.

In 2005 there were 31 cases of vascular tumours described in the pleura. Eleven were epithelioid haemangioendotheliomas. This is another case, a 52 year old woman who suffered a traumatism and died 29 months after the histological diagnosis because CAT revealed discrete pleural involvement and a 2cm nodule was seen only one month before death.

Rev Port Pneumol 2006; XII (4): 455-461

Key-words:
Pleura
epithelioid haemangioendothelioma
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