Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Heart: A case report.
- Author:
Mi Seon LEE
;
Kyu Sang SONG
;
Kwang Sun SUH
;
Dae Young KANG
;
Young LEE
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma;
Heart
- MeSH:
Female;
Male;
Humans
- From:Korean Journal of Pathology
1988;22(2):138-144
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A case of a 58-year-old man with malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of the right ventricle is reported light and electron microscopically. This is the first case of MFH of the heart in the Korean literature. A tendency for malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the heart to occur in the left atrium of young women is suggested; this sarcoma's usual location is in the soft tissue of elderly men. The tumor consisted of spindle cells arranged in a focal storiform patterns, clusters or sheets of histocyte-like cells, benign and malignant giant cells, inflammatory cells, scattered mitotic figures and anaplasia of stromal cells. In ultrastructure the constituent of cells of the tumor are primitive mesenchymal cells, histiocytoid cells and fibroblast like cells including giant cells.
