An unusual case of angiosarcoma.

Eur J Surg Oncol

Department of Radiotherapy & Oncology, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London, UK.

Published: October 1988

A case of angiosarcoma arising in an arm affected by chronic lymphoedema and treated initially by intraarterial cytotoxic perfusion chemotherapy and radiotherapy is described. The patient is still alive twenty years after presentation. This represents the longest reported survival for this condition.

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