Angiosarcoma of the Chest Wall associated with Chronic Empyema and Pulmonary Metastasis: A Case Report
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چکیده
ing for approximately 1% of all soft tissue tumors. Angiosarcoma is a neoplasm that arises from endothelial cells and it usually originates in the small blood vessels. It can affect virtually any organ, but it most commonly develops in the skin and deep soft tissues, liver, spleen, heart and breast (1). We present here a rare case of primary angiosarcoma of the chest wall that was associated with chronic empyema and hypervascular pulmonary metastases. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no case report on the computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) features of a patient with angiosarcoma of the chest wall with hypervascular pulmonary metastases.
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Primary epithelioid angiosarcoma of the chest wall complicating calcified fibrothorax and mimicking empyema necessitates
1. Departamento de Radiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España. 2. Departamento de Cirugía Torácica, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España. 3. Departamento de Patología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España. We describe the case of a 72-year-old male patient with primary epithelioid angiosarcoma of the chest wall (PEACW). The patient complaine...
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