An autopsy case of tuberous sclerosis associated with primary pericardial mesothelioma.

Acta Pathologica Japonica
A NaramotoH Shigematsu

Abstract

Tuberous sclerosis (Bourneville-Pringle phacomatosis) has been known to be associated with cardiac rhabdomyoma, but apparently never previously with primary pericardial mesothelioma. We present an autopsy case of this condition in a 59-year-old man, who had been diagnosed as having tuberous sclerosis in view of the presence of facial sebaceous adenoma, mental retardation, intracranial calcification, cerebral ventricular dilatation and renal tumor. During the clinical course, characterized by heart failure due to cardiac tamponade, cardiac sarcoma was diagnosed by imaging techniques. Autopsy revealed biphasic-type primary pericardial mesothelioma. As to the tuberous sclerosis, atypical giant cells in the tubers of the cerebral cortex and the lateral ventricular wall were found, which were considered to be derived from neurons rather than glial cells on the basis of staining with Bodian, Holzer, and antibodies against NSE, GFA and S-100 protein. In old tubers protruding into the lateral ventricles, fibrous glias were present with dense calcospherite deposits, coinciding with the CT findings. The renal tumors were angiomyolipomas, which were present bilaterally and showed partially infiltrative growth, but seemed to have a benign ...Continue Reading

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