Clinical cases

Cytology of Pericardial Effusion in Sarcoma Metastasis

Clinical case of metastatic pericardial effusion in sarcoma. Cytological features: polymorphism, atypical mitoses, and giant multinucleated cells.

🔬 Metastatic pericardial effusion. Patient: 39-year-old male. History: sarcoma of the left tibia, liver metastases. Complication: metastatic pericarditis. Brief description: cellular and nuclear polymorphism, giant multinucleated cells, some nuclei with 1 or more nucleoli, irregular nuclear membrane contour, uneven chromatin, mitoses.

🙏 Material kindly provided by clinical laboratory diagnostics physician, cytologist Oksana Kadantseva, Yudin City Clinical Hospital, Moscow