Back to Search
Start Over
Angiosarcoma sobre linfedema crónico
- Source :
- Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas. 97:525-528
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2006.
-
Abstract
- Angiosarcoma that develops on a limb with chronic lymphedema is called Stewart-Treves syndrome. This typically appears as a complication of a long course lymphedema located on the arm, after mastectomy and/or radiotherapy due to breast cancer. There are cases of Stewart-Treves syndrome in chronic lymphedema in the upper limb contralateral to the breast treated for cancer and in chronic lymphedema of the leg. We present two cases of this syndrome. The first corresponds to a typical syndrome of Stewart-Treves in an 83-year-old woman who was diagnosed of angiosarcoma in a chronic lymphedema territory secondary to mastectomy and radiotherapy due to breast cancer. The second case is much rarer, since it is a case of diffuse angiosarcoma of the leg in a 42-year-old man with a history of lymphedema. Due to the aggressive nature of this syndrome, knowledge and research on its treatment are necessary.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Cancer
General Medicine
medicine.disease
humanities
Surgery
body regions
Radiation therapy
medicine.anatomical_structure
Breast cancer
Hemangiosarcoma
Lymphedema
hemic and lymphatic diseases
medicine
Upper limb
Angiosarcoma
business
Mastectomy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00017310
- Volume :
- 97
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........89a201978bad64214bc06d0eb779d7fa