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angiosarcoma

[‚an·jē·ō‚sär′kō·mə]

(medicine)

A malignant soft-tissue tumor arising from vascular elements.

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Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining showed CD31 (+), F8-R-Ag (+), Fli-1 (+), Ki-67 (high), CK5/6 (−), calretinin (−), Meso-cell (−), EMA (−), desmin (−), CK (pan) (−), and D2-40 (−), consistent with molecular features of angiosarcoma [Figure 1]f and [Figure 1]g.

Spontaneous Rupture and Thrombosis of Right Atrium

Unfortunately, prognosis is poor, with a 5-year survival rate of about 35% in nonmetastatic angiosarcoma cases.

Angiosarcoma

Of the primary liver cancer angiosarcoma constitutes about 2%; however, it still ranks the third most common of the liver malignancies.

Unusual case of angiosarcoma of liver presenting with pulmonary metastasis in a young girl

37) The penis is an uncommon site of involvement but lesions in this location may be confused with epithelioid hemangioendothelioma or epithelioid angiosarcoma.

Soft Tissue Tumor Immunohistochemistry Update: Illustrative Examples of Diagnostic Pearls to Avoid Pitfalls

Angioendothelioma is a vascular tumor with morphologic appearance and a clinical course intermediate between hemangioma and angiosarcoma.

Myoid angioendothelioma of the spleen: A rare case report and literature review

1 Specialists apply the term angiosarcoma to a wide range of malignant endothelial vascular neoplasms that affect a variety of sites.

Primary angiosarcoma of neck nodes with bony metastasis - A case report

Epithelioid angiosarcoma is a variant of angiosarcoma composed of large rounded epithelioid endothelial cells that are positive for cytokeratin on immunostaining.

Post-radiation epithelioid angiosarcoma of the urinary bladder and prostate

The differential diagnosis for EHE of the bone includes osteomyelitis and various tumors such as skeletal angiomatosis, Langerhans cell histiocytosis, myeloma, lymphoma, angiosarcoma, and metastasis.

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of tibia and talus: a case report

There are also reported cases of angiosarcoma of congenital nature and other causes of chronic secondary lymphedema, such as posttraumatic or post radiation lymphedema and also cases of upper limb angiosarcoma after breast-conserving therapy [2-4].

Difficult diagnosis: the Stewart-Treves syndrome vs. Kaposi sarcoma following mastectomy for breast cancer a--case report

e grandfather, of Scotswood, Newcastle, has facial angiosarcoma, a cancer of the inner lining of blood vessels.

Resigned to my fate, but still hoping to help other sufferers

year will do 13,000 the Shahid Islam-Ali is one of the patients who has been using the charity's services while undergoing radiotherapy after being diagnosed with angiosarcoma last year.

Brushing up on care

It has previously been reported in association with metastatic gestational choriocarcinoma, in mycosis fungoides with lung involvement, cases of leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, angiosarcoma, histiocytosis and adenocarcinoma (1-4).