Giant Diaphragmatic Angiosarcoma of Adult: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Angiosarcoma is a rare vascular malignant soft tissue tumor, with highly malignant, invasive, and multifocal characteristics of biology, which is prone to local recurrence and distant metastasis, so the prognosis is extremely poor. It rarely involves the diaphragm. We present the case of an adult pa...

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Autores principales: Ren, Tao, Chen, Xue-qian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22431944
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/950856
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description Angiosarcoma is a rare vascular malignant soft tissue tumor, with highly malignant, invasive, and multifocal characteristics of biology, which is prone to local recurrence and distant metastasis, so the prognosis is extremely poor. It rarely involves the diaphragm. We present the case of an adult patient who had a primary giant angiosarcoma of the left-sided diaphragm.
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spelling pubmed-32955652012-03-19 Giant Diaphragmatic Angiosarcoma of Adult: A Case Report and Review of Literature Ren, Tao Chen, Xue-qian Case Rep Med Case Report Angiosarcoma is a rare vascular malignant soft tissue tumor, with highly malignant, invasive, and multifocal characteristics of biology, which is prone to local recurrence and distant metastasis, so the prognosis is extremely poor. It rarely involves the diaphragm. We present the case of an adult patient who had a primary giant angiosarcoma of the left-sided diaphragm. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3295565/ /pubmed/22431944 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/950856 Text en Copyright © 2012 T. Ren and X.-q. Chen. 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.
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