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Successful radiotherapy of facial angiosarcoma
Author(s) -
Gkalpakiotis S.,
Arenberger P.,
Vohradnikova O.,
Arenbergerova M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2008.03813.x
Subject(s) - angiosarcoma , medicine , radiation therapy , scalp , lymphedema , hemangiosarcoma , etiology , dermatology , radiology , surgery , pathology , cancer , breast cancer
Cutaneous angiosarcoma of the face and scalp is a rare malignant vascular tumor that affects mostly Caucasian elderly males. At present, connections concerning the etiology of this neoplasm with radiation therapy, exposure to environmental carcinogens and chronic lymphedema have been described. Due to the difficult histologic evaluation, high local recurrence and tendency to early metastasing, angiosarcoma poses generally a very poor prognosis. We report the case of an 80‐year‐old patient who experienced successful removal of large, exophytic growing angiosarcoma of the face achieved with radiotherapy with long‐term relapse‐free survival.