학술논문
A case of cardiac metastasis of uterine cervical carcinoma, diagnosed by cell block cytohistological examination of the pericardial fluid / Cell Block法により診断された子宮頸癌心転移の1例
Document Type
Journal Article
Author
Source
日本臨床細胞学会雑誌 / The Journal of the Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology. 1991, 30(3):527
Subject
Language
Japanese
ISSN
0387-1193
1882-7233
1882-7233
Abstract
A 38-year-old woman, treated with the CDDP-Peplomycin regimen for a lung metastasis from recurrent uterine cervical carcinoma (squamous cell carcinoma), developed a pericardial effusion and signs of cardiac tamponade appeared. Pericardial drainage was performed and bloody pericardial fluid was obtained. Although routine cytological examination of the pericardial fluid revealed no malignant cells, cell block cytohistological examination enabled us to find some squamous cell carcinoma tissue with cancer pearls. Thus, a cardiac metastasis from uterine cervical carcinoma was diagnosed.It is suggested that cell block cytohistological examination of a pericardial effusion originating from pericarditis carcinomatosa may be useful if smear cytological examination fails to show any malignant cells.