Malignant mesothelioma is a disease that originates from mesenchymal cells. It is related to the occupational or environmental exposure to asbestos. The treatment remains controversial because it is commonly diagnosed at a very late stage, and the prognosis is very poor. In this report, we present a 37-year-old female patient who was admitted with shortness of breath, palpitation and inability ...

Malignant mesothelioma is an uncommon neoplasm arising in body cavities lined by the mesothelium. Immunohistochemical stains are useful for making a diagnosis, but the correct combination of antibodies as should be selected in a comprehensive assessment. A peritoneal origin combined with desmoplastic histology is an extremely rare disease entity. Here, we report a case of the primary peritoneal...

UNLABELLED To elucidate the features of the asbestos fibers contributing to the induction of human malignant mesothelioma, we used high-resolution analytical electron microscopy to determine the type, number, and dimensions of asbestos fibers in lung and mesothelial tissues in 168 cases of mesothelioma. RESULTS 1. Asbestos fibers were present in almost all of the lung and mesothelial tissues ...

Mesothelioma is the most common malignant primary tumor of the pleura and usually associated with inhalation of asbestos fibers. In contrast, peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare entity whose pathomechanism is not yet fully understood. The coexistence of pleural mesothelioma with secondary involvement of the abdominal cavity has not been addressed in the literature. In this case report, we describ...

Malignant mesothelioma is a rare malignancy of the body cavities with dismal prognosis. It has been a diagnostic dilemma for years with many clinical and pathological mimics. Discovery of a reliable tumour marker will MESOTHELIN RELATED Pallavi Rao, Srikanth PEPTIDE Narayanaswamy Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, United Mesothelin is a glycophosphatidylinKingdom ositol anchored glycoprotein, which ...

Malignant mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive tumor with limited therapeutic options. We report a case of a malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (MPM) epithelioid type, with environmental asbestos exposure, in a 36-year-old man, with a long survival (17 years). The patient received standard treatment which included cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)...

were CEA negative and Leu-M1 or B72.3 positive have been reported. These latter two antibodies were not used by the authors. Furthermore, ultrastructural studies have been found useful by a number of authors,22 6 but were not employed in the study by Beuachamp et al,t Some ofthese tests may not have been performed due to the limitation of the sample size. This merely serves to underscore the di...

Objective: In this article, we review radiologic findings of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma with our patient archives. We also want to determine importance of radiologic findings about differential diagnosis of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. Materials and methods: We scanned our patient archive of mesothelioma between 2008 and 2012 years. We included 15 patients with peritoneal mesotheli...

BACKGROUND The worldwide mortality and morbidity from lung cancer, leukemia, and malignant mesothelioma arising from occupational exposures to carcinogens are described. Cases reported in the year 2000 that resulted from relevant past and current exposures are assessed. METHODS The proportions of workers exposed to the carcinogens of interest, and their levels of exposure, were estimated usin...

Pleural biopsies for the evaluation of malignant mesothelioma can be some of the most challenging cases faced by the practicing surgical pathologist. We review the epidemiology, clinical presentation, and imaging studies in patients with malignant mesothelioma, and then present a practical approach to the diagnosis using the cytologic features for malignancy and whether there is an epithelioid ...