Scalp Angiosarcoma Remission with Bevacizumab and Radiotherapy without Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Angiosarcoma (AS) is a rare and aggressive vascular neoplasm with very poor prognosis. Patients with extensive cutaneous AS who are not surgical candidates have very limited options since there is no standard treatment. Treatment options include radiation, chemotherapy, and angiogenesis inhibitor wi...

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Autores principales: De Yao, Jocelyn T., Sun, Danyu, Powell, Angela T., Rehmus, Esther H.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21647357
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/160369
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author De Yao, Jocelyn T.
Sun, Danyu
Powell, Angela T.
Rehmus, Esther H.
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Sun, Danyu
Powell, Angela T.
Rehmus, Esther H.
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description Angiosarcoma (AS) is a rare and aggressive vascular neoplasm with very poor prognosis. Patients with extensive cutaneous AS who are not surgical candidates have very limited options since there is no standard treatment. Treatment options include radiation, chemotherapy, and angiogenesis inhibitor with varying success rates. Here, we report a case an 88 year old patient with extensive scalp angiosarcoma having biopsy proven remission with bevacizumab and radiotherapy without undergoing surgery.
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spelling pubmed-31039742011-06-06 Scalp Angiosarcoma Remission with Bevacizumab and Radiotherapy without Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature De Yao, Jocelyn T. Sun, Danyu Powell, Angela T. Rehmus, Esther H. Sarcoma Case Report Angiosarcoma (AS) is a rare and aggressive vascular neoplasm with very poor prognosis. Patients with extensive cutaneous AS who are not surgical candidates have very limited options since there is no standard treatment. Treatment options include radiation, chemotherapy, and angiogenesis inhibitor with varying success rates. Here, we report a case an 88 year old patient with extensive scalp angiosarcoma having biopsy proven remission with bevacizumab and radiotherapy without undergoing surgery. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3103974/ /pubmed/21647357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/160369 Text en Copyright © 2011 Jocelyn T. De Yao et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
De Yao, Jocelyn T.
Sun, Danyu
Powell, Angela T.
Rehmus, Esther H.
Scalp Angiosarcoma Remission with Bevacizumab and Radiotherapy without Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Scalp Angiosarcoma Remission with Bevacizumab and Radiotherapy without Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Scalp Angiosarcoma Remission with Bevacizumab and Radiotherapy without Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Scalp Angiosarcoma Remission with Bevacizumab and Radiotherapy without Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Scalp Angiosarcoma Remission with Bevacizumab and Radiotherapy without Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Scalp Angiosarcoma Remission with Bevacizumab and Radiotherapy without Surgery: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort scalp angiosarcoma remission with bevacizumab and radiotherapy without surgery: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21647357
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/160369
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