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Chromosomal abnormalities and p53 gene mutation in a cardiac angiosarcoma.
Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology : AIMM - 1 Mar 2001
Zu Y, Perle M A, Yan Z, Liu J, Kumar A, Waisman J
Abstract excerpt
Angiosarcoma is the most common malignant neoplasm of the heart. However, to the authors' knowledge, no cytogenetic study of cardiac angiosarcoma has been reported. In the current study, an angiosarcoma from the right atrium of a 29-year-old man was investigated. Examination of tissue sections indicated that the tumor was a high grade epithelioid angiosarcoma of the heart. Cytogenetic analysis of tumor cells...
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