Alveolar soft part sarcoma: A rare diagnosis | Zendy

Priyanka Sarkar | Zendy; Subhabrata Mukherjee | Zendy; MakhanLal Saha | Zendy; RabiSankar Biswas | Zendy

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Alveolar soft part sarcoma: A rare diagnosis

Author(s) -

Priyanka Sarkar,

Subhabrata Mukherjee,

MakhanLal Saha,

RabiSankar Biswas

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

indian journal of dermatology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395

H-Index - 36

eISSN - 1998-3611

pISSN - 0019-5154

DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.110873

Subject(s) - medicine , alveolar soft part sarcoma , rare disease , soft tissue , sarcoma , metastasis , hemangioma , histopathological examination , connective tissue , radiology , soft tissue sarcoma , chemotherapy , pathology , disease , surgery , cancer

Alveolar soft-part sarcoma (ASPS) is an extremely rare disease arising from connective tissues with a propensity for recurrence and metastasis. Clinically, it can be confused with hemangioma or arterio-venous malformations. Thus, a high index of suspicion and histopathological examination are required to make a definitive diagnosis. We report a case of recurrent ASPS in a young female with multiple sites involvement without any features of metastasis who has been treated with excision of the symptomatic lesions followed by chemotherapy

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