Lymphangiosarcoma of the arm presenting with lymphedema in a woman 16 years after mastectomy: a case report

Lymphangiosarcoma following breast cancer is a relatively rare entity, with around 300 cases so far reported worldwide. Affecting the long term survivors of breast cancer, lymphangiosarcoma (Stewart-Traves Syndrome) has a high mortality rate. Since lympedema following radical mastectomy or axillary...

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Autores principales: Sepah, Yasir J, Umer, Masood, Qureshi, Asim, Khan, Shaista
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918554
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6887
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author Sepah, Yasir J
Umer, Masood
Qureshi, Asim
Khan, Shaista
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description Lymphangiosarcoma following breast cancer is a relatively rare entity, with around 300 cases so far reported worldwide. Affecting the long term survivors of breast cancer, lymphangiosarcoma (Stewart-Traves Syndrome) has a high mortality rate. Since lympedema following radical mastectomy or axillary clearance and radiotherapy seems to be the main predisposing factor, further research regarding modifications in the surgical technique of axillary nodes dissection as well as the development of new chemotherapeutic agents effective in lymphangiosarcoma are required.
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spelling pubmed-27693242009-11-16 Lymphangiosarcoma of the arm presenting with lymphedema in a woman 16 years after mastectomy: a case report Sepah, Yasir J Umer, Masood Qureshi, Asim Khan, Shaista Cases J Case report Lymphangiosarcoma following breast cancer is a relatively rare entity, with around 300 cases so far reported worldwide. Affecting the long term survivors of breast cancer, lymphangiosarcoma (Stewart-Traves Syndrome) has a high mortality rate. Since lympedema following radical mastectomy or axillary clearance and radiotherapy seems to be the main predisposing factor, further research regarding modifications in the surgical technique of axillary nodes dissection as well as the development of new chemotherapeutic agents effective in lymphangiosarcoma are required. Cases Network Ltd 2009-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2769324/ /pubmed/19918554 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6887 Text en © 2009 Sepah 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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Sepah, Yasir J
Umer, Masood
Qureshi, Asim
Khan, Shaista
Lymphangiosarcoma of the arm presenting with lymphedema in a woman 16 years after mastectomy: a case report
title Lymphangiosarcoma of the arm presenting with lymphedema in a woman 16 years after mastectomy: a case report
title_full Lymphangiosarcoma of the arm presenting with lymphedema in a woman 16 years after mastectomy: a case report
title_fullStr Lymphangiosarcoma of the arm presenting with lymphedema in a woman 16 years after mastectomy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Lymphangiosarcoma of the arm presenting with lymphedema in a woman 16 years after mastectomy: a case report
title_short Lymphangiosarcoma of the arm presenting with lymphedema in a woman 16 years after mastectomy: a case report
title_sort lymphangiosarcoma of the arm presenting with lymphedema in a woman 16 years after mastectomy: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918554
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6887
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