Cutaneous angiosarcoma of the head and neck resembling rosacea: A case report

Angiosarcoma is a malignant endothelial cell tumor that involves a variety of anatomic sites with the skin being the most common. Cutaneous angiosarcoma is a diagnostic challenge as it can be confused with lesions such as rosacea, hemangiomas and hematomas. Since the tumor has a propensity for early...

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Autores principales: Wong, Alan, Flores, Javier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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JCMS Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20940419
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description Angiosarcoma is a malignant endothelial cell tumor that involves a variety of anatomic sites with the skin being the most common. Cutaneous angiosarcoma is a diagnostic challenge as it can be confused with lesions such as rosacea, hemangiomas and hematomas. Since the tumor has a propensity for early metastasis and extensive intradermal spread, early diagnostic intervention via punch biopsy may prevent delays in diagnosis and improve tumor resectability and prognosis. We present a case of cutaneous angiosarcoma on the nose and cheeks of a 75-year-old male that resembled rosacea.
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spelling pubmed-74252532020-08-25 Cutaneous angiosarcoma of the head and neck resembling rosacea: A case report Wong, Alan Flores, Javier SAGE Open Med Case Rep JCMS Case Report Angiosarcoma is a malignant endothelial cell tumor that involves a variety of anatomic sites with the skin being the most common. Cutaneous angiosarcoma is a diagnostic challenge as it can be confused with lesions such as rosacea, hemangiomas and hematomas. Since the tumor has a propensity for early metastasis and extensive intradermal spread, early diagnostic intervention via punch biopsy may prevent delays in diagnosis and improve tumor resectability and prognosis. We present a case of cutaneous angiosarcoma on the nose and cheeks of a 75-year-old male that resembled rosacea. SAGE Publications 2020-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7425253/ /pubmed/32850127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20940419 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_short Cutaneous angiosarcoma of the head and neck resembling rosacea: A case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425253/
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