A case of sarcomatoid malignant pleural mesothelioma showing extremely rare growth pattern is described. A 63-year-old man presented to our hospital with left pleural effusion. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest showed diffusely thickened left visceral and parietal pleura associated with intermingled pulmonary infiltrative shadowing. Biopsy of the pleura under general anaesthesia conf...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary metastasis from prostate cancer is considered to be a late event, and patients can be treated with chemotherapy or hormonal manipulation. However, there has been only a few reports on surgical resection for pulmonary metastasis from prostate cancer. CASE PRESENTATION We present a surgical case of solitary pulmonary metastasis from prostate cancer. A 73-year-old man underw...

Sarcomatoid carcinoma is a type of spindle cell neoplasm. These varieties neoplasms comprise diverse collection benign and malignant neoplasms. carcinoma, also known by various other names such as Spindle Lane’s tumor, to name few, an exceedingly rare aggressive variant squamous 3, 7, 8 The variation in its nomenclature reflects the divergent interpretation sarcomatoid component reactive or neo...

Cholangiocarcinoma (CC) is an adenocarcinoma arising from epithelial cells of varying locations within the biliary tree, and is the second most common primary liver tumor, accounting for approximately 10-15% of all hepatobiliary malignancies. This disease has a high prevalence in Southeast and Eastern Asia, including Korea; during the period 2003-2005, the age-standardized incidence rates of in...

Sarcomatoid combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma is an extremely rare primary hepatic malignancy and only a few cases have been reported. Herein, we report a case of combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma with sarcomatoid changes in a 52-year-old man, who had a history of liver cirrhosis and transarterial chemoembolization. The resected liver revealed a mass of 4.5×3.5 cm. Microscopic...

The author reports a very rare and very unique urinary bladder carcinoma. This carcinoma occurred in a 68-year-old Japanese patient who underwent cystectomy for bladder tumor. The tumor was large polypoid and ulcerated one. Histologically, the tumor consisted of the following three elements: giant cell sarcomatoid carcinoma (70% in area), squamous cell carcinoma (20% in area), and papillary uro...

Cutaneous spindle cell malignancies such as sarcomatoid squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), leiomyosarcoma, desmoplastic melanoma (DM) and atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) may be morphologically indistinguishable, yet accurate diagnosis is important for appropriate clinical management. The distinction among these entities relies on immunohistochemical evaluation for epidermal, muscle or melanocytic diff...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with sarcomatoid change is a rare neoplasm of the liver, and recurrent therapies for HCC such as transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and percutaneous ablation therapy are presumed to promote sarcomatoid change. A 73-year-old man was admitted to our hospital diagnosed as having liver cancer originating from hepatitis C-related cirrhosis without any previous tr...

Sarcomatoid carcinoma is a rare, high-grade epithelial malignancy composed exclusively or predominantly of spindle cells often having features suggestive of epithelial derivation without features indica tive of a specific line of mesenchymal differentiation. Sarcomatous carcinomas occur in diverse locations throughout the body, including the upper respiratory tract, upper and lower digestive tr...

Primary intracranial squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are rare and mostly associated with an intracranial epidermoid or dermoid cyst. Sarcomatoid carcinoma is a rare biphasic tumor composed of both carcinomatous and sarcomatous components and has not previously been reported as a primary intracranial tumor. Here, we present a case of a 60-year-old man with a primary intracranial sarcomatoid carc...