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High grade angiosarcoma arising in fibroadenoma

Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumour that account for fewer than 0.05% of all malignant mammary tumours. Angiosarcoma may have an perfidious clinical onset. Radiologic findings are often nonspecific and may appear completely normal in one-third of cases with primary angiosarcoma. The...

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Autores principales: Babarović, Emina, Zamolo, Gordana, Mustać, Elvira, Strčić, Miroslav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3284406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22185665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-6-125
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author Babarović, Emina
Zamolo, Gordana
Mustać, Elvira
Strčić, Miroslav
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description Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumour that account for fewer than 0.05% of all malignant mammary tumours. Angiosarcoma may have an perfidious clinical onset. Radiologic findings are often nonspecific and may appear completely normal in one-third of cases with primary angiosarcoma. The prognosis is usually poor because of the high rates of local recurrence and early development of metastases. Aggressive surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment. The role of adjuvant therapy has not yet been well established. Here we present a case of a 53 year old, postmenopausal women with primary angiosarcoma arising in fibroadenoma. To our knowledge, this is the first case described in the literature to date.
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spelling pubmed-32844062012-02-23 High grade angiosarcoma arising in fibroadenoma Babarović, Emina Zamolo, Gordana Mustać, Elvira Strčić, Miroslav Diagn Pathol Case Report Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumour that account for fewer than 0.05% of all malignant mammary tumours. Angiosarcoma may have an perfidious clinical onset. Radiologic findings are often nonspecific and may appear completely normal in one-third of cases with primary angiosarcoma. The prognosis is usually poor because of the high rates of local recurrence and early development of metastases. Aggressive surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment. The role of adjuvant therapy has not yet been well established. Here we present a case of a 53 year old, postmenopausal women with primary angiosarcoma arising in fibroadenoma. To our knowledge, this is the first case described in the literature to date. BioMed Central 2011-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3284406/ /pubmed/22185665 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-6-125 Text en Copyright ©2011 Babarović et al; 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.
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High grade angiosarcoma arising in fibroadenoma
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title_full_unstemmed High grade angiosarcoma arising in fibroadenoma
title_short High grade angiosarcoma arising in fibroadenoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3284406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22185665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-6-125
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