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Splenic rupture as the presenting manifestation of primary splenic angiosarcoma in a teenage woman: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Primary splenic angiosarcoma is a rare neoplasm of vascular origin carrying a very poor prognosis, partly due to its high metastatic potential. This disease presents frequently with splenic rupture and hemorrhage. We report the case of a 17-year-old woman who presented with rupture of...

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Autores principales: Manouras, Andreas, Giannopoulos, Panagiotis, Toufektzian, Levon, Markogiannakis, Haridimos, Lagoudianakis, Emmanuel E, Papadima, Artemisia, Papanikolaou, Dimitrios, Filis, Konstantinos, Kekis, Panagiotis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2387157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18445294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-133