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Arkh Patol
December 2019
State Research Center A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia, Moscow, Russia.
Primary splenic angiosarcoma is a rare and high-grade vascular tumor having a significant metastatic potential. The authors give the data available in the literature and describe their own case of primary splenic angiosarcoma in a 42-year-old male patient with multiple distant metastases in the lymph nodes and skin. The paper shows some difficulties in the morphologic diagnosis of this tumor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUpper gastrointestinal hemorrhage represents a common symptom in the internal medical practice. This Case Report depicts a severe gastrointestinal bleeding from an angiosarcoma that required multiple blood transfusion. As shown in this case, the actual cause may initially remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedicina (Kaunas)
October 2006
Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Sarcoma of the breast is a rare tumor (makes up 0.5 to 1% of all malignant breast tumors). In literature, only isolated cases of primary angiosarcoma of the breast were described.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLijec Vjesn
June 1994
Klinika za unutarnje bolesti Medicinskog fakulteta u Zagrebu.
Two workers exposed to elevated concentrations of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) in a plastic industry plant are presented. They both died of hepatic tumors: one of liver angiosarcoma after ten or more years of exposition to about 500 ppm VCM. On the basis of former studies the authors predict future incidence of such malignant tumors at a rate of about one per year in the same plant, notwithstanding the protective measures, because of "cumulative" VCM concentration in the working medium.
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