Clinical features of primary pleural angiosarcomas (epithelioid haemangioendothelioma)
| Case | Sex | Age (years) | Clinical | Radiology | Course (months) | Necroscopic findings |
| 1 | M | 59 | Pleuritic pain, dyspnoea | Effusion, diffuse pleural thickening, plaques (CXR, CT) | 7 | Diffuse pleural tumour, hyaline pleural plaques, ferruginous bodies in lung |
| 2 | M | 73 | Chest infection, dyspnoea | Effusion, pleural fibrosis,pleural mass, plaque (CXR,CT) | 9 | Diffuse pleural tumour, pleural fibrosis, classical asbestos bodies in lung |
| 3 | M | 33 | Cough, pleuritic pain, dyspnoea | Effusion, parietal pleural thickening, diaphragm and pericardial spread (CXR, CT) | 8 | Diffuse pleural neoplasm with local invasion of mediastinum and diaphragm. Contralateral plaque. Ferruginous bodies, many coarse “welding type” |