Bilateral Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast

Primary breast sarcomas are very rare entities, accounting for 0.04% of all malignant neoplasms. Angiosarcoma of breast is infrequent and is an endothelial malignant tumor with bad prognosis because of the frequency of metastasis and recurrence. We present a case of a 30-year-old female who presente...

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Autores principales: Keshav, P., Hegde, Shruti S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24195000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/139276
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description Primary breast sarcomas are very rare entities, accounting for 0.04% of all malignant neoplasms. Angiosarcoma of breast is infrequent and is an endothelial malignant tumor with bad prognosis because of the frequency of metastasis and recurrence. We present a case of a 30-year-old female who presented with an ulcerated left breast lesion which on further workup revealed to be a primary angiosarcoma of breast with metastasis to right breast.
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spelling pubmed-38061222013-11-05 Bilateral Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast Keshav, P. Hegde, Shruti S. Case Rep Surg Case Report Primary breast sarcomas are very rare entities, accounting for 0.04% of all malignant neoplasms. Angiosarcoma of breast is infrequent and is an endothelial malignant tumor with bad prognosis because of the frequency of metastasis and recurrence. We present a case of a 30-year-old female who presented with an ulcerated left breast lesion which on further workup revealed to be a primary angiosarcoma of breast with metastasis to right breast. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3806122/ /pubmed/24195000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/139276 Text en Copyright © 2013 P. Keshav and S. S. Hegde. 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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