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Post-irradiation cutaneous angiosarcoma
Angiosarcoma is a rare and highly malignant tumor with potential to recur despite treatment, and carries a poor prognosis. Previous radiation therapy and lymphedema are some of the known risk factors. We present a case of cutaneous angiosarcoma which occurred at lumpectomy site in a patient with a h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605761/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18925942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-241 |
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author | Mehta, Rohtesh S Mikhail, Michael |
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description | Angiosarcoma is a rare and highly malignant tumor with potential to recur despite treatment, and carries a poor prognosis. Previous radiation therapy and lymphedema are some of the known risk factors. We present a case of cutaneous angiosarcoma which occurred at lumpectomy site in a patient with a history of breast cancer and radiation to the breast. The tumor kept on recurring repetitively despite continual treatments, and the patient finally succumbed to the disease roughly four years after initial diagnosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-26057612008-12-20 Post-irradiation cutaneous angiosarcoma Mehta, Rohtesh S Mikhail, Michael Cases J Case Report Angiosarcoma is a rare and highly malignant tumor with potential to recur despite treatment, and carries a poor prognosis. Previous radiation therapy and lymphedema are some of the known risk factors. We present a case of cutaneous angiosarcoma which occurred at lumpectomy site in a patient with a history of breast cancer and radiation to the breast. The tumor kept on recurring repetitively despite continual treatments, and the patient finally succumbed to the disease roughly four years after initial diagnosis. BioMed Central 2008-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2605761/ /pubmed/18925942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-241 Text en Copyright © 2008 Mehta and Mikhail; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Mehta, Rohtesh S Mikhail, Michael Post-irradiation cutaneous angiosarcoma |
title | Post-irradiation cutaneous angiosarcoma |
title_full | Post-irradiation cutaneous angiosarcoma |
title_fullStr | Post-irradiation cutaneous angiosarcoma |
title_full_unstemmed | Post-irradiation cutaneous angiosarcoma |
title_short | Post-irradiation cutaneous angiosarcoma |
title_sort | post-irradiation cutaneous angiosarcoma |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605761/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18925942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-241 |
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