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A strange Evans syndrome: a case report

Hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare malignant vascular tumor, which accounts for up to 2% of all primary liver tumors. The most frequent symptoms on presentation are weight loss, weakness and abdominal pain. Diagnosis of diffuse hepatic angiosarcoma can be challenging. We report an original case of diffu...

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Autores principales: Le Scanff, Julie, Durupt, Stéphane, Bailly, François, Rode, Agnès, Sève, Pascal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830043
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8001
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author Le Scanff, Julie
Durupt, Stéphane
Bailly, François
Rode, Agnès
Sève, Pascal
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Durupt, Stéphane
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Rode, Agnès
Sève, Pascal
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description Hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare malignant vascular tumor, which accounts for up to 2% of all primary liver tumors. The most frequent symptoms on presentation are weight loss, weakness and abdominal pain. Diagnosis of diffuse hepatic angiosarcoma can be challenging. We report an original case of diffuse liver angiosarcoma revealed by haematological abnormalities initially diagnosed as an Evans syndrome. Anaemia and thrombocytopenia are rarely the first manifestations of this pathology. They are explained by combination of several mechanisms. Diagnosis of diffuse liver angiosarcoma can be extremely difficult and physicians should be aware of these presentation.
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spelling pubmed-27402252009-10-14 A strange Evans syndrome: a case report Le Scanff, Julie Durupt, Stéphane Bailly, François Rode, Agnès Sève, Pascal Cases J Case report Hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare malignant vascular tumor, which accounts for up to 2% of all primary liver tumors. The most frequent symptoms on presentation are weight loss, weakness and abdominal pain. Diagnosis of diffuse hepatic angiosarcoma can be challenging. We report an original case of diffuse liver angiosarcoma revealed by haematological abnormalities initially diagnosed as an Evans syndrome. Anaemia and thrombocytopenia are rarely the first manifestations of this pathology. They are explained by combination of several mechanisms. Diagnosis of diffuse liver angiosarcoma can be extremely difficult and physicians should be aware of these presentation. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2740225/ /pubmed/19830043 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8001 Text en © 2009 Scanff et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830043
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