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<journal-id>0873-2159</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev Port Pneumol]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0873-2159</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0873-21592008000300009</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Hemangioendotelioma epitelióide - Um tumor pulmonar raro]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma - A rare pulmonary tumor]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Saleiro]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Sandra]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Barbosa]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Miguel]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Moura]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Conceição Souto]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Almeida]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[João]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ferreira]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Silva]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="A04">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina Hospital de São João]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
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<aff id="A03">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina Hospital de São João]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
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<aff id="A02">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina Hospital de São João]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="A01">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina Hospital de São João]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Porto ]]></addr-line>
<country>Portugal</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2008</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2008</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>14</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>421</fpage>
<lpage>425</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0873-21592008000300009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0873-21592008000300009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0873-21592008000300009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Os autores descrevem um caso de uma neoplasia pulmonar rara - hemangio-endotelioma epitelióide - numa doente do sexo feminino, de 39 anos, assintomática até Dezembro de 2003, altura em que apresentou toracalgia direita de características pleuríticas. A doente era portadora de uma radiografia torácica antiga, efectuada há 13 anos, que revelava múltiplos pequenos nódulos pulmonares bilaterais, atribuídos a sequelas de tuberculose pulmonar. O diagnóstico histológico definitivo foi efectuado através de biópsia pulmonar por toracotomia. Dado a doente ter apresentado agravamento clínico e imagiológico foi iniciada terapêutica com interferão &#945;-2a. Apesar da estabilidade imagiológica das lesões pulmonares, a doente manteve-se sintomática e faleceu nove meses depois do diagnóstico ter sido estabelecido. Os autores realçam a raridade deste tipo de neoplasia pulmonar e discutem a sua apresentação clínica, características histológicas, tratamento e prognóstico.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[The authors report a case of a rare pulmonary neoplasm - epithelioid hemangio-endothelioma, in a 39 year-old woman, asymptomatic until December 2003, when she developed pleuritic and right-sided chest pain. The patient presented a previous chest radiograph, performed 13 years before, which showed multiple small bilateral pulmonary nodules attributed to tuberculous sequelae. The definitive histological diagnosis was made by lung biopsy through thoracotomy. The patient developed a clinical and imagiological worsening and then therapy with interferon &#945;-2a was started. Even with imagiological stability of pulmonary lesions the patient remained symptomatic and died nine months after the diagnosis had been established. The authors emphasise the rarity of this type of pulmonary neoplasm and discuss its clinical presentation, histological features, treatment and prognosis.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Hemangioendotelioma epitelióide]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[pulmão]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[interferão]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[lung]]></kwd>
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</front><body><![CDATA[ <p><b>Hemangioendotelioma      epitelióide – Um tumor pulmonar raro</b></p>      <p><b>&nbsp;</b></p>      <p><b>Sandra Saleiro <sup><a href="#1">1</a><a name="top1"></a></sup></b></p>      <p><b>Miguel Barbosa <sup><a href="#2">2</a><a name="top2"></a></sup></b></p>      <p><b>Conceição Souto Moura <sup><a href="#3">3</a><a name="top3"></a></sup></b></p>      <p><b>João Almeida <sup><a href="#4">4</a><a name="top4"></a></sup></b></p>      <p><b>Silva Ferreira <sup><a href="#5">5</a><a name="top5"></a></sup></b></p>      <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>      <p><b>Resumo</b></p>      ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p>Os autores descrevem um caso de uma neoplasia pulmonar rara – hemangio-endotelioma epitelióide – numa doente do sexo feminino, de 39 anos, assintomática até Dezembro de 2003, altura em que apresentou toracalgia direita de características pleuríticas. A doente era portadora de uma radiografia torácica antiga, efectuada há 13 anos, que revelava múltiplos pequenos nódulos pulmonares bilaterais, atribuídos a sequelas de tuberculose pulmonar.</p>      <p>O diagnóstico histológico definitivo foi efectuado através de biópsia pulmonar    por toracotomia. Dado a doente ter apresentado agravamento clínico e imagiológico    foi iniciada terapêutica com interferão &#945;-2a. Apesar da estabilidade imagiológica    das lesões pulmonares, a doente manteve-se sintomática e faleceu nove meses    depois do diagnóstico ter sido estabelecido.</p>      <p>Os autores realçam a raridade deste tipo de neoplasia pulmonar e discutem a sua apresentação clínica, características histológicas, tratamento e prognóstico.</p>      <p><b>Palavras-chave: </b>Hemangioendotelioma epitelióide, pulmão, interferão    &#945;.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>      <p><b>Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma – A rare pulmonary tumor</b></p>      <p>The authors report a case of a rare pulmonary neoplasm – epithelioid hemangio-endothelioma, in a 39 year-old woman, asymptomatic until December 2003, when she developed pleuritic and right-sided chest pain. The patient presented a previous chest radiograph, performed 13 years before, which showed multiple small bilateral pulmonary nodules attributed to tuberculous sequelae. The definitive histological diagnosis was made by lung biopsy through thoracotomy.</p>      <p>The patient developed a clinical and imagiological worsening and then therapy with interferon &#945;-2a was started. Even with imagiological stability of pulmonary lesions the patient remained symptomatic and died nine months after the diagnosis had been established.</p>      <p>The authors emphasise the rarity of this type of pulmonary neoplasm and discuss its clinical presentation, histological features, treatment and prognosis.</p>      ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p><b>Key-words: </b>Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, lung, interferon &#945;.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>      <p>&nbsp;</p>      <p>Texto completo dispon&iacute;vel apenas em PDF.</p>        <p>Full text only available in PDF format.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>       <p><b>Bibliography</b></p>      <!-- ref --><p>1. Díaz R, Segura Á, Calderero V <i>et al. </i>Central nervous system metastases of a pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. Eur Respir J 2004; 23: 483-6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[&#160;<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript: window.open('/scielo.php?script=sci_nlinks&ref=000031&pid=S0873-2159200800030000900001&lng=','','width=640,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=1,menubar=yes,');">Links</a>&#160;]<!-- end-ref --><p>2. Cronin P, Arenberg D. Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma – an unusual case and a review of</p>      ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p>the literature. Chest 2004; 125: 789-92.</p>      <p>3. Kitaichi M, Nagai S, Nishimura K <i>et al. </i>Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in 21 patients, including three with partial spontaneous regression. Eur Respir J 1998; 12: 89-96.</p>      <p>4. Pinet C, Magnan A, Garbe L <i>et al. </i>Aggressive form of pleural epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: complete response after chemotherapy. Eur Respir J 1999; 14(1): 237-8.</p>      <p>5. Kumar Pankaj, Judson I, Nicholson AG <i>et al. </i>Mediastinal hemangioma: successful treatment by alpha–2a interferon and postchemotherapy resection. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002; 124: 404-6.</p>      <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p><a name="1"></a><a href="#top1">1</a> Interna Complementar de Pneumologia</p>     <p><a name="2"></a><a href="#top2">2</a> Interno Complementar de Oncologia Médica</p>     <p><a name="3"></a><a href="#top3">3</a> Assistente Hospitalar de Anatomia Patológica</p>     <p><a name="4"></a><a href="#top4">4</a> Chefe de Serviço de Pneumologia</p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p><a name="5"></a><a href="#top5">5</a> Chefe de Serviço de Medicina Interna</p>     <p>Serviço de Pneumologia</p>     <p>Director de Serviço: Professor Doutor Venceslau Hespanhol</p>     <p>Serviço de Anatomia Patológica</p>     <p>Directora de Serviço: Professora Doutora Fátima Carneiro</p>     <p>Serviço de Oncologia Médica</p>     <p>Director de Serviço: Dra. Margarida Damasceno</p>     <p>Hospital de São João, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto – Porto</p>     <p><b>Correspond&ecirc;ncia</b>:</p>     <p> Sandra Saleiro </p>     ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p>Servi&ccedil;o de Pneumologia - Hospital de S&atilde;o Jo&atilde;o </p>     <p>Alameda Prof. Hern&acirc;ni Monteiro 4202-451 &#8211; Porto &#8211; Portugal  </p>     <p>E-mail: <a href="mailto:sandrasaleiro@portugalmail.pt">sandrasaleiro@portugalmail.pt</a></p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p align="right">Recebido para publica&ccedil;&atilde;o/received for publication:    07.12.14</p>     <div align="right">Aceite para publica&ccedil;&atilde;o/accepted for publication:    08.01.30</p> </div>      ]]></body><back>
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