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An Incidental Finding of Scalp Angiosarcoma: A Case Report
Scalp angiosarcoma is a malignant tumor of the vascular endothelial cells. We present the case of an elderly male patient with a history of urinary bladder transitional cell cancer and trauma (falling on his head) who came to the emergency department with scalp swelling, which was found on brain ima...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33816009 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13610 |
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author | Alwarqi, Akram F Abdurabu, Mohammed Gopalakrishnan, Pramod Paksoy, Yahya Abu Ageila, Munir |
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description | Scalp angiosarcoma is a malignant tumor of the vascular endothelial cells. We present the case of an elderly male patient with a history of urinary bladder transitional cell cancer and trauma (falling on his head) who came to the emergency department with scalp swelling, which was found on brain imaging to infiltrate into the skull, reaching the dural matter. A biopsy was done, which showed angiosarcoma, which is rare for that area. Further studies are recommended to establish if there is a possible genetic association between both cancers (urinary bladder transitional cell cancer and scalp angiosarcoma) as both arise from endothelial cells. |
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spelling | pubmed-80095602021-04-02 An Incidental Finding of Scalp Angiosarcoma: A Case Report Alwarqi, Akram F Abdurabu, Mohammed Gopalakrishnan, Pramod Paksoy, Yahya Abu Ageila, Munir Cureus Emergency Medicine Scalp angiosarcoma is a malignant tumor of the vascular endothelial cells. We present the case of an elderly male patient with a history of urinary bladder transitional cell cancer and trauma (falling on his head) who came to the emergency department with scalp swelling, which was found on brain imaging to infiltrate into the skull, reaching the dural matter. A biopsy was done, which showed angiosarcoma, which is rare for that area. Further studies are recommended to establish if there is a possible genetic association between both cancers (urinary bladder transitional cell cancer and scalp angiosarcoma) as both arise from endothelial cells. Cureus 2021-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8009560/ /pubmed/33816009 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13610 Text en Copyright © 2021, Alwarqi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Emergency Medicine Alwarqi, Akram F Abdurabu, Mohammed Gopalakrishnan, Pramod Paksoy, Yahya Abu Ageila, Munir An Incidental Finding of Scalp Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title | An Incidental Finding of Scalp Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_full | An Incidental Finding of Scalp Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | An Incidental Finding of Scalp Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | An Incidental Finding of Scalp Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_short | An Incidental Finding of Scalp Angiosarcoma: A Case Report |
title_sort | incidental finding of scalp angiosarcoma: a case report |
topic | Emergency Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33816009 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13610 |
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