Angiosarcoma of the lung

Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant vascular tumor. Pulmonary involvement is usually attributable to metastasis from other primary sites, primary pulmonary angiosarcoma therefore being quite uncommon. We report a case of angiosarcoma with pulmonary involvement, probably primary to the lung, which had g...

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Autores principales: Grafino, Mónica, Alves, Paula, de Almeida, Margarida Mendes, Garrido, Patrícia, Hasmucrai, Direndra, Teixeira, Encarnação, Sotto-Mayor, Renato
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia 2016
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Relato De Caso
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4805390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26982044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37562016000000193
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author Grafino, Mónica
Alves, Paula
de Almeida, Margarida Mendes
Garrido, Patrícia
Hasmucrai, Direndra
Teixeira, Encarnação
Sotto-Mayor, Renato
author_facet Grafino, Mónica
Alves, Paula
de Almeida, Margarida Mendes
Garrido, Patrícia
Hasmucrai, Direndra
Teixeira, Encarnação
Sotto-Mayor, Renato
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description Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant vascular tumor. Pulmonary involvement is usually attributable to metastasis from other primary sites, primary pulmonary angiosarcoma therefore being quite uncommon. We report a case of angiosarcoma with pulmonary involvement, probably primary to the lung, which had gone untreated for more than two years. We describe this rare neoplasm and its growth, as well as the extensive local invasion and hematogenous metastasis at presentation. We also discuss its poor prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-48053902016-04-15 Angiosarcoma of the lung Grafino, Mónica Alves, Paula de Almeida, Margarida Mendes Garrido, Patrícia Hasmucrai, Direndra Teixeira, Encarnação Sotto-Mayor, Renato J Bras Pneumol Relato De Caso Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant vascular tumor. Pulmonary involvement is usually attributable to metastasis from other primary sites, primary pulmonary angiosarcoma therefore being quite uncommon. We report a case of angiosarcoma with pulmonary involvement, probably primary to the lung, which had gone untreated for more than two years. We describe this rare neoplasm and its growth, as well as the extensive local invasion and hematogenous metastasis at presentation. We also discuss its poor prognosis. Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4805390/ /pubmed/26982044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37562016000000193 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
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