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Primary Angiosarcoma Of Breast, Saroona Haroon, Naveen Faridi, Faisal Rashid Lodhi
Primary Angiosarcoma Of Breast, Saroona Haroon, Naveen Faridi, Faisal Rashid Lodhi
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Primary breast sarcomas, except for phyllodes tumour, are very rare entities, accounting for < 0.1% of all malignant neoplasms. Angiosarcoma of breast is infrequent malignancy and differential diagnosis from other sarcomatous and angiomatous breast tumours holds importance. Two cases of primary angiosarcoma of breast were encountered. One involved a 32 years lady who was treated by wide local excision and six cycles of chemotherapy. The other occurred in a 54 years old lady who was treated with mastectomy, did not receive any radiation or chemotherapy and was later lost to follow-up. Neither of the patient had history of previous breast surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
Malignant Vascular Tumours Associatedwith The Breast: A Study Of 7 Cases, Azizun-Nisa, Zeeshanuddin, Naila Kayani
Malignant Vascular Tumours Associatedwith The Breast: A Study Of 7 Cases, Azizun-Nisa, Zeeshanuddin, Naila Kayani
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Angiosarcomas account for less than 0.05% of the malignant neoplasms of the breast. We present here 7 cases of malignant vascular neoplasms of the breast, including 2 cases of postmastectomy Stewart-Treves syndrome. In this case series, most of the patients were young. Tumour was bilateral at presentation in one case. The size of the tumours ranged from 1.6 cm to 11 cm. Although breast angiosarcomas are rare neoplasms, with the increasing use of radiation therapy for breast cancer patients, post-radiation skin lesions should not be ignored.