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Giant Diaphragmatic Angiosarcoma of Adult: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Author(s) -

Tao Ren,

Xue-qian Chen

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

case reports in medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 1687-9627

pISSN - 1687-9635

DOI - 10.1155/2012/950856

Subject(s) - medicine , angiosarcoma , diaphragm (acoustics) , distant metastasis , diaphragmatic breathing , soft tissue , hemangiosarcoma , metastasis , radiology , pathology , cancer , physics , alternative medicine , acoustics , loudspeaker

Angiosarcoma is a rare vascular malignant soft tissue tumor, with highly malignant, invasive, and multifocal characteristics of biology, which is prone to local recurrence and distant metastasis, so the prognosis is extremely poor. It rarely involves the diaphragm. We present the case of an adult patient who had a primary giant angiosarcoma of the left-sided diaphragm.

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